[SOLVED] ATI Mobility Radeon on OpenSuse 11.4 fglrx/driver issue
Linux - HardwareThis forum is for Hardware issues.
Having trouble installing a piece of hardware? Want to know if that peripheral is compatible with Linux?
Notices
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. If you need to reset your password, click here.
Having a problem logging in? Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies.
Get a virtual cloud desktop with the Linux distro that you want in less than five minutes with Shells! With over 10 pre-installed distros to choose from, the worry-free installation life is here! Whether you are a digital nomad or just looking for flexibility, Shells can put your Linux machine on the device that you want to use.
Exclusive for LQ members, get up to 45% off per month. Click here for more info.
ATI Mobility Radeon on OpenSuse 11.4 fglrx/driver issue
Im attempting to get my ATI Mobility Radeon 3650 HD to function properly on an new installation of OpenSuse 11.4. This is on a Toshiba A300 laptop.
I have been trying for a couple of days now and cant seem to figure out how to get this to work. I have tried:
1) booting with nomodeset
2) installing the new catalyst 11.5 software from ATI, released a couple of days ago
3) booting in failsafe
4) editing 50-device.conf and uncommented the "Driver "radeon"" line
Everytime I boot, irregardless of what boot options I use, FGLRX module does not load. System tells me that its attempting to create/load it only to fail everytime.
I have seemed to get it to install only to have glxgears and glxinfo fail on me still.
linux-psf8:/home/tokth # glxgears
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 137 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 15
Current serial number in output stream: 15
I will be honest.. I have no idea where to look anymore and everything I seem to find on the internet about the issue are scenarios that I have already tried. Any help is greatly appreciated.
It returns nothing. I have installed it via yast... or at least I thought I did. What I do notice is that in boot, fglrx's creation is attemtped since it is missing, but fails and then bootup just continues on. This is with nomodeset OR failsafe.
Well you'll need to find out why the installation didn't build the kernel module. I'm not very familiar with openSUSE, but I know many distributions have separate packages, one for the fglrx userland and one for the fglrx kernel module. That's the first thing I'd check.
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.