Hi All, I recently installed SUSE Linux 9.0. The first thing that I tried to do was get the current ATI driver software for my Radeon 9600XT card. Here is my system info:

SUSE 9.0(clean install, no automatic updates applied yet)
KDE 3.1.4
XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 is installed.
Kernel Version: 2.4.21 -99 -Athlon

The driver seemed to install properly, and my KDE desktop seems to be working perfectly other than the fact that the OpenGL drivers seem to be wrong. The ATI drivers install an 'ATI Desktop' utility. When I view the information tab, I see the following OpenGL info:
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OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.04
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Here is the result of running the 3Ddiag command:
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3Ddiag version 0.703
Verifying 3D configuration:
Using 3dinfo
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No 3D capable graphic chipset found!
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Checking GL/GLU/glut runtime configuration:
GL/GLU ... done (package XFree86-Mesa)
glut ... done (package mesaglut)
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Is there any additional configuration required to get the XWindows to point to the ATI OpenGL driver rather than Mesa?

Thanks,

Joe Patton

Mate, I've had huge problems with the exact same issue. I'm running a Radeon X600 (PCI-e which has confused the issue a little also). The way I managed to get my 3D accel running was this:

(1) I ensured my boot arguments (Edit boot.config file using Yast) include "vga=normal" NOT "vga=00x30A" or similar
(2) As root, without X running (CTRL-ALT-BKSP, su, init 3) go thru the steps as outlined in the README on ATI's site.
(3) Before running the line with the SAX2 configuration, I ran FGLRXConfig.
(4) When running the Sax configuration line, the display went blank - I hit Enter, and Ctrl-C.
(5) I ensured the xorg.conf settings generated by flgrxconfig had the correct monitor refresh rates.

It worked!

Wal

BTW, that reference I have in there to SAX2 is the following command:

sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx -b /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/profile/firegl -i