ATI Driver failing to detect X850XT PE AGP on SuSE 10 OSS 32-Bit
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ATI Driver failing to detect X850XT PE AGP on SuSE 10 OSS 32-Bit
My new 40GB Maxtor HDD arrived today just for me to dual boot SuSE 10 OSS onto (got another HDD for Windows 2000 Pro) and I'm running into a problem while installing the graphics driver from ATI. In the SuSE 10 OSS Wiki guide (http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=...r_Installation) step 9 fails to detect my graphics card, and stops Sax2.
The MESA driver works fine, I can use SuSE @ 1280x1024 in 24-bit colour depth, but I want to run UT2004 on Linux instead of Windows (I'm trying to move away from Windows and Microsoft) so I need the proper ATI driver installed.
Any ideas? As the thread title states, I have the AGP version of the X850XT PE not the PCI-E version.
EDIT: The driver installs and functions on my 9800 XT, just not the X850XT PE.
Last edited by Electrolyte; 02-14-2006 at 08:40 AM.
Step 9 wouldn't fail if the first 8 steps went through, but I have never liked that install method to be blunt. That wiki is really odd.
The best instructions are to just check your dependencies, then follow ATI's official instructions, which means
1)download the install script
2)Run it with ./NAME
3)Backup the current Xorg.conf
4)run fglrxconfig or other name, they are prone to changing it
5)modify the Xorg.conf as needed for your monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
Done.
It can't be the install because I've seen people with the PCI-E version install their's fine. My 9800 XT gets detected and works fine (infact, UT2004 runs faster in Linux than Windows).
EDIT: All I get when trying to install using ATI's install program is "Permission denied" even when in root and in init 3.
Last edited by Electrolyte; 02-15-2006 at 05:14 AM.
Bingo. There you go. You do not have all dependencies met. This is why both methods fail an installing. In this case, you do not have kernel source for your kernel installed. Though the AGPGART issue may mean you don't have one of those either, successfully running. To check dependencies, you can check on my website, or we can help if you post the output of:
"lspci"
"lsmod"
Both will need to be run as root.
For kernel though, you need to install your kernel source, if you haven't upgraded your kernel, you can use YAST to install this for you.
looks like your agp-gart is installed fine. The fact it is using 2 is why it has that little "error" which shouldn't affect driver install. The kernel source should be it. Then you just be able to install the ATI drivers just fine.
That's okay. you can install that if you need it, I don't think you do for this though. Do the other versions match precisely? That means:
2.6.13-15 is not the same as 2.6.13-15-2, etc. They must match exactly.
That is really odd. And still you get the kernel error from the drivers. You are running the script as root, correct?
Otherwise, I can only suggest maybe rebooting and trying again. Possibly kernel source needs a reboot for the ATI installer to find it... though that doesn't make much sense to me.
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