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Old 04-22-2004, 05:01 PM   #1
adamc91115
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Still getting Mesa as OpenGL on ATI Radeon 9000


Hi, I've tried just about everything installing the ATI drivers on SuSE 9.0. They install fine but whenever I run fglrxinfo I continue to get

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: xxx.xxxxxx.xxx
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4

Anyone have a solution, tips, or anything? Thanks
 
Old 05-07-2004, 09:40 PM   #2
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I am having the same problem, so I would really like to see the answer to this.
 
Old 05-07-2004, 10:19 PM   #3
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can you start X alright? try going to:
/lib/modules/fglrx/
and follow the instructions for manually building and installing the module.
 
Old 05-07-2004, 10:28 PM   #4
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I can start x fine, it just always uses mesa instead of ati. I went in the fglrx directory and there are no readme or install instructions. However, I did build a module earlier. I thought it would use the new module automatically but I guess it doesn't. I can insert the new module manually with insmod. What I don't know how to do is to get the new module to load automatically at startup and how to stop the old modules from loading.
 
Old 05-07-2004, 11:00 PM   #5
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Unhappy Same problem but with ati 9700

Well i installed Mandrake 10 it's working great...

But can't get my ati to work... And i looked on the ati support and it's just dont work for me...

And also i got audigy gamer 5.1 and didn't find any drivers.
If u know somthing that would be great
thx

I alrady installed 4 times after rebooting coz of a "fatal error"

But i still didn't quit on that ... i just love this thing !!!

Hope some 1 will help all of us
 
Old 05-08-2004, 02:25 AM   #6
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my main problem was that i wasnt installing in level 3, it never worked for me installing level 5
 
Old 05-08-2004, 10:56 AM   #7
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you mean runlevel 3 and 5? that would be a problem. anyway, Vorticies, i think the build process goes like this (do it as root):
cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
./build.sh
cd ..
./install.sh
and then reboot/init 3 then init 5/kill and start X. either one of those should work.
 
Old 05-08-2004, 12:10 PM   #8
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thats what i meant...

i had to start in runlevel 3, install and everything then go to runlevel 5 do fglrxconfig, edit the file, then reboot again. that worked for me
 
Old 05-08-2004, 01:21 PM   #9
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Ok, first I uninstalled the rpm. Then I rebooted. I brought up a konsole, su, telinit 3. From runlevel 3, rpm -Uh --force etc.... It installed my package. Then I rebooted. It went to runlevel 5 but x wouldn't start obviously. From here I ran fglrxconfig. Afterwards, I rebooted. X started, and I changed my resolution to something I could work in. Then I went in the k menu, selected ATI Control and ..... still Mesa.
 
Old 05-08-2004, 04:48 PM   #10
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no no... install in runlevel 3 then go to runlevel 5 without restarting and do fglrxconfig
 
Old 05-08-2004, 05:20 PM   #11
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I can't do that, when I install in 3 then type init 5 it hangs. Only a restart will let me back into 5.
 
Old 05-08-2004, 09:16 PM   #12
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Ok, I got it working. During fglrxconfig I tried both answers to whether I should use external agp. It turns out that I needed to say yes to that but also that I need to load that module manually. I guess I just assume too much that things will get done automatically. Anyway, all I need now is for someone to tell me how to make agpgart load auto at startup.
 
  


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