Can't install ATi driver on Suse 10.1 RC1

[Gul Dukat]

Hi,

I followed the recent development of Suse's 10.1 version. As I would like this one on my laptop. So as I saw there was a 10.1 RC1 version, I thought I give it a try before the official realease later this month. I only seem to have 2 issues with this RC1 version for now. First of all. I can't seem to get the ATi-driver, the latest 8.24.8, form there site. I installed the right kernel-source:

 

totaal 1
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 224 2006-04-22 10:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 344 2006-04-22 10:56 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 128 2006-04-22 10:33 ATI
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  15 2006-04-22 10:12 linux -> linux-2.6.16-20
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 808 2006-04-22 10:12 linux-2.6.16-20
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  96 2006-04-22 10:11 linux-2.6.16-20-obj
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  19 2006-04-22 10:12 linux-obj -> linux-2.6.16-20-obj
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 168 2006-04-22 10:57 packages

 

An after I let the ati.driver.installer run, I did aticonfig --initial, but I'm still not getting 3D acceleration, as the glxinfo | grep direct shows:

direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

 

What I'm I doing wrong? Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Edited April 22, 2006 by Gul Dukat

[tyme]

Is Suse 10.1 running XGL instead of regular X?

ps -fu root | grep Xgl

[Gul Dukat]

Tyme, thanks for your reaction.

Didn't thought about Suse using Xgl. But when giving the command you suggested as "user", I get nothing.

But when giving the command as root, I'm getting the following response:

root 4255 4239 0 01:15 pts/1 00:00:00 grep Xgl

 

Does this mean, Suse 10.1 is using Xgl? Correct me if I'm mistaken. But the ATi driver aren't compatible with Xgl yet, are they?

[tyme]

no, it's not using Xgl, it's just recognizing the grep Xgl command and grepping it...I wasn't sure if that was the case or not. I don't have much experience with ATI drivers...so hopefully someone else can help you out, but I imagine posting your /etc/X11/xorg.conf would help.

[Gul Dukat]

Oke, thanks anyway Tyme.

Installing the ATi-drivers on a Mandriva 2006 pc, was no problem. Also the new ones. But as this is Suse 10.1 RC1, I really don 't no what I'm doing wrong. I know that installing those drivers on a Mandriva system requires libstdc++5. But is it also required on a Suse system? I can't seem to find this file on my Suse system. Here is my xorg.conf, by the way:

# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2006-04-22T11:42:39+0200.
#
# Version: 7.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (7.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier	 "Layout[all]"
Screen	  0  "aticonfig Screen 0" 0 0
InputDevice	"Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice	"Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
InputDevice	"Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
Option		"Clone" "off"
Option		"Xinerama" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
InputDevices   "/dev/gpmdata"
InputDevices   "/dev/input/mice"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
FontPath	 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest"
FontPath	 "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load  "dbe"
Load  "type1"
Load  "freetype"
Load  "extmod"
Load  "glx"
Load  "v4l"
Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option		"AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard[0]"
Driver	  "kbd"
Option		"Protocol" "Standard"
Option		"XkbLayout" "us"
Option		"XkbModel" "pc104"
Option		"XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse[1]"
Driver	  "mouse"
Option		"Buttons" "5"
Option		"Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option		"Name" "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
Option		"Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option		"Vendor" "Sysp"
Option		"ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse[3]"
Driver	  "synaptics"
Option		"Buttons" "5"
Option		"Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option		"Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option		"InputFashion" "Mouse"
Option		"Name" "Synaptics;Touchpad"
Option		"Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option		"SHMConfig" "on"
Option		"Vendor" "Sysp"
Option		"ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
Identifier	 "Modes[0]"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
VendorName   "SAMSUNG"
ModelName	"SEC 1024"
UseModes	 "Modes[0]"
DisplaySize  330	210
HorizSync	31.0 - 60.0
VertRefresh  30.0 - 60.0
Option		"DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "aticonfig Monitor 0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Device[0]"
Driver	  "radeon"
VendorName  "ATI"
BoardName   "Mobility Radeon X700 5653 (M26) (PCIE)"
Option		"CRT2HSync" "31-48"
Option		"MonitorLayout" "LVDS,AUTO"
Option		"SaXDualMonitorModel" "1024X768@60HZ"
Option		"SaXDualMonitorVendor" "--> VESA"
Option		"SaXDualOrientation" "LeftOf"
Option		"SaXDualResolution" "1024x768"
Option		"SaXDualVSync" "50-60"
Option		"CRT2Position" "Clone"
Option		"CRT2VRefresh" "50-60"
Option		"IgnoreEDID" "yes"
Option		"MergedFB" "yes"
Option		"SaXDualHSync" "31-48"
Option		"MetaModes" "1680x1050,1024x768;1024x768,1024x768"
Option		"SaXDualHead" ""
Option		"SaXDualMode" "Clone"
BusID	   "1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
Driver	  "fglrx"
BusID	   "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Device	 "Device[0]"
Monitor	"Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth	 24
SubSection "Display"
	Depth	 15
	Modes	"1680x1050"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
	Depth	 16
	Modes	"1680x1050"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
	Depth	 24
	Modes	"1680x1050"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
	Depth	 8
	Modes	"1680x1050"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig Screen 0"
Device	 "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
Monitor	"aticonfig Monitor 0"
DefaultDepth	 24
SubSection "Display"
	Viewport   0 0
	Depth	 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group		"video"
Mode		 0660
EndSection

 

I hope someone can help me out here. Thanks in advance.