Linux ATI Catalyst issue with openSuse11.2/11.0

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Catalyst 9.9 worked well in my old openSuSE 11.1. Then, for some reason I had go back to 11.0 and I really didn't need driver as everything was working good except no desktop effects which I needn't to use. Yet, I tried installing 9.9 on 11.0 and it installed smoothly. But afterward, whenever I run "glxinfo" / "glxgears" / "fglrx-glxgears" etc, en error message occured. I thought that was 11.0 bug. But today I installed the 9.11 in 11.2 and I get a blank screen after booting and loading the OS. And yes, I did initialize driver. Later I logged into the failsafe mode where the same glxinfo error occured. Am I missing something here ? :S
 
Try deleting all ati drivers and reinstalling them again for making sure that all drivers are deleted check them from device manager if still you get the issue then may your drivers got some issue try downloading new setup from ATI site
 
Well, It is the newest catalyst which I downloaded yesterday. Besides, this was a fresh installation of SuSE 11.2.
 
somehow suse 11.1 and 11.2 do not respond well to installation directly via the downloaded binary executable.

initialize sax by su sax2 to get in to default graphical mode and use package manager to acquire appropriate drivers.
 
The 9.6 catalyst driver (binary) installed fine in 11.1. I'm having a different error message to install 9.6 in 11.2. :( Anyway, I'm gonna try other ways.
 
sabby said:
The 9.6 catalyst driver (binary) installed fine in 11.1. I'm having a different error message to install 9.6 in 11.2. :( Anyway, I'm gonna try other ways.
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Did try suggestion given by madnav i.e initialize sax by su sax2 to get in to default graphical mode and use package manager to acquire appropriate drivers.
 
issuing the command "sax2" just brought me back to the black screen. :(

It seems a bug/problem for 64bit only. My previous 11.1 was 32bit and had no problem/conflict with catalyst drivers.
 
Problem solved.

1. corrupted file, something happened while copying to linux partition.

2. Forgot to initialize by 'force'.

3. The catalyst was saving the xorg.conf file as xorg.conf.fglrx-0/1/2 etc. :(

Now everything is fine. :) Thanks for the support guys.
 
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