Hi all.
I was having lots of display issues, mainly freezing etc with my intergrated HD4200 card, and ATI drivers.
The end result meant I formatted / drive, leaving /home, and installed OpeSuse again last night. (The way Linux allows you to do this compared to windows is a dream!!)
If im honest, this area confuses me somewhat.
I know that if I leave the drivers installed that are pre loaded with OpenSuse, I cannot get audio to send over HDMI, however, images / video appear to function well.
So, I installed the ATI drivers again, only this time, I think the install was very different to last time, I used 1 click install before, this time I entered commands in terminal.
Code:
zypper ar -c -f -n "AMD/ATI legacy fglrx non-official" http://geeko.ioda.net/mirror/amd-fglrx-legacy/openSUSE_12.2/ "ATI/AMD-FGLRX-LEGACY"
That is the driver I have installed, as I understand anything other than the legacy drivers will fail for my card.
After the install, I had to then enter the following command
Code:
robs-linux:~ # aticonfig --initial
Found fglrx primary device section
Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Saving back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx-1
Videos on youtube, videos on my media drives, and music now play properly, where as before they would very often freeze and loop until I moved the mouse, HDMI audio functions correctly.
This is where my problems start.
First problem is openGL seems to be missing, I get the following error when trying to start XMBC.
Code:
XMBC needs hardware accelerated OpenGl rendering.
Install an appropriate graphics driver.
Please consult XMBC wiki etc etc......
My other problem is that when I try to enter the AMD Catalyst Control Center, sometimes it will not open, opening it in (Administrative) mode, fails every time, no error message, just doesnt open.
I'm not sure of what commands I can put into console to help you experts out to help myslef, but Ill give you what info I can.
here is what is listed in xorg.conf
Code:
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Module"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Here is a picture from AMD catalyst when I have been able to enter it (usually only the first time after a reboot)
I'm sure previously, OpenGl was listed in there?
http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/5020/atix.png Additional info..
This is on board graphics card, monitor connected VGA>VGA 1920x1080, tv connected HDMI>HDMI 1920x1080.
Fresh install of OpenSuse 12.2 (/home directory not formatted).
In the mean time, whilst reading other threads about similar issues, if I can find any other info to poste that will help from the console, I'll update with it.
Thanks in advance
Rob
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