ATI driver problems

[HiJazzey]

Hi

I'm currently setting up openSuse 10.2 on my computer and I'm having some trouble with the ATI drivers. I followed the instructions on installing fglrx and the installation went smoothly. However for some reason, the ATI drivers seem to totally ignore the setting I set in Sax2. It will always display in 1024x768 whatever I set in Sax2! When I run the ATI catalyst control centre, it doesn't allow me to set the resolution slider higher than 1024x768.

I really don't get what the problem is. I've got it all running on Ubuntu without problems. So it's probably something to do with how Sax2 configures X . Any ideas?

[kahoona]

Are the resolutions you want to use setup in your /etc/xorg.conf file?

[HiJazzey]

yes it is (actually I would prefer 1280x720 but 1280x768 is fine). Here's the screen section of xorg.conf:

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen[0]"
	Device     "Device[0]"
	Monitor    "Monitor[0]"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     15
		Modes    "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     8
		Modes    "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

[HiJazzey]

I eventually got it working after a lot of trial and error.
I first ran sax and set the monitor resolution to 1920x1080 , then edited xorg.conf and added "1280x720" to the resolution lists in the screen block, restart x , and then finally set the resolution to 1280x720 in catalyst. And hooray, it's in 720p.
The text size was quite big, so I had to change the font sizes in KDE.

There's probably a more elegant way of doing this, but that's how I got it to work.