[Novalug] ATI Radeon 9200 and 3D support, OpenSUSE 10.3

[Jay Hart]

This is very detailed, I hope I don't leave something out. I have a ATI radeon
9200 AGP card. Using video driver "RV280 5961".

I'm trying to add 3D support. In order to accomplish this, I think I have one
of two things I can do:

1. Enable the 3D acceleration option under the graphic card setup in Yast.  If
I enable this, and then do the recommended "test", I get back the following
message in a dialog box:

"Testing Configuration Failed
For further info, refer to the file /var/log/Xorg.99.log. The following report
has been created from the colling instance:

SaX library: Success
X configuration: Parse error on line 118 of section Modes in file
/var/lib/sax/xorg.conf Modeline Hdisplay expected"

Line 118 contains:
Modeline      "<undefined>x" 220 <undefined>

This line does not appear in /etc/X11/Xorg.conf

I'd be happy to send the Xorg.99.log file, if I saw anything in there that
shed some light on this.

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2. Need to change the video card driver from "RV280 5961" to ???.

I'm trying to follow the following procedure:

http://en.opensuse.org/ATI

But I'm getting hung up installing the drivers (dependency conflicts).

Doing `uname -r` returns
2.6.22.5-2-bigsmp

So I think I need to add the ati-fglrxG01-kmp-bigsmp package, plus the
x11-video-fglrxG01 package.  They seem to be butting heads. Having dependency
problems installing.  I skipped section 1.1 (of the above procedure), thought
it would be better to add the repositories, but who the hell knows.

Any (and all) help very appreciated.

I was going to buy a new card, but I want to give this one a chance.

TIA,

Jay Hart