I just installed the latest driver version fglrx64_6_8_0_16.20, build the custom one for my system SUSE9.3 (up to here, everything perfect) , rebooted, started Xwindows and got a blank screen that does not even let me switch to console mode. so I guess IŽll need to switch off the laptop! Desperating, as lastest ATI release notes finally do list explicitly the Xpress200 as card this driver is valid for...On the other hand, if you issue rpm -qi with the new custom build rpm no reference to Xpress200 appears. This makes me thing it is still an unresolved issue.
following the instructtions, one should configure it with fglrxconfig. Weird thing about this is that fglrxconfig does not have any option for the Xpress200! So you can't use it for configuring it. Any way, I saved the xorg.xconf it generates after it complains that not valid graphic card was found, re-edited to fix things like pciid, screen section, etc. Still the same problem persists. Even using the xorg that worked with previous fglrx version (although I never got
it working, but was always falling back to mesa).
The funny thing is that I get no error nowhere, i.e., dmesg shows:
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fglrx: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
fglrx: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 918 MBytes.
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.16.20 [Aug 16 2005] on minor 0
...
[fglrx] free PCIe = 54804480
[fglrx] max PCIe = 54804480
[fglrx] free LFB = 122613760
[fglrx] max LFB = 122613760
[fglrx] free Inv = 0
[fglrx] max Inv = 0
[fglrx] total Inv = 0
[fglrx] total TIM = 0
[fglrx] total FB = 0
[fglrx] total PCIe = 16384
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Also Xorg.0.log seems happy about everything:
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(II) fglrx(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.0
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] created "fglrx" driver at busid "PCI:1:5:0"
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0x00681000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0x00681000 to 0x2aaaab686000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xc0000000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit done
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information:
(II) fglrx(0): Name: fglrx
(II) fglrx(0): Version: 8.16.20
(II) fglrx(0): Date: Aug 16 2005
(II) fglrx(0): Desc: ATI FireGL DRM kernel module
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version matches driver.
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Build Time Information:
(II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel UTS_RELEASE: 2.6.11.4-21.8-default
(II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel MODVERSIONS: no
(II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel __SMP__: no
(II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel PAGE_SIZE: 0x1000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] register handle = 0xb0100000
(II) fglrx(0): [pcie] 65536 kB allocated with handle 0xdeadbeef
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] ringbuffer size = 0x00100000 bytes
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] DRM buffer queue setup: nbufs = 100 bufsize = 28672
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] texture shared area handle = 0x00a4a000
(II) fglrx(0): shared FSAAScale=1
(II) fglrx(0): DRI initialization successfull!
(II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0x40000000 FBMappedSize: 0x00501000
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1024,1281)
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1024,768) (front color buffer - assumption)
(==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled
(==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 768)
(II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1024 x 505
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled
(II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
Screen to screen bit blits
Solid filled rectangles
8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
Solid Lines
Dashed Lines
Offscreen Pixmaps
Setting up tile and stipple cache:
24 128x128 slots
(II) fglrx(0): Acceleration enabled
(II) fglrx(0): X context handle = 0x00000001
(II) fglrx(0): [DRI] installation complete
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My system is a Compaq Presario R4025CA, AMD-64, Xpress200M, working with SUSE9.3 2.6.11.4-21.8-default.
Another detail, I have this laptop conected to the net and I just checkec it is still responding to an ssh. So I can still log in from my desktop. Just the screen remains blank and it does not recognize the combinations CRTL+ALT+Fn, with n=1-6...
One gets the feeling I'd be close to get everything working fine, but there is still something missing. Any help, suggestions...? Where could I get a clue about what is going wrong (as neither Xorg.0.log nor dmesg give no complain)?
thanks,