ATI HD 2400Pro no direct rendering (gentoo)

[N-0-X]

Hello.

I have a problem is an ATI HD 2400 Pro brand new video card connected in AGP to my computer.

I can start X but I don't have any direct rendering and for some reason that I don't know fglrxinfo says I'm using the Mesa 3D Project Indirect rendering, though the opensource radeonhd driver is *not* installed...

Also "lsmod | grep agp" doesn't return *anything*.

I think it has something to do with DRI because whenever I activate it in my xorg.conf file X fails to start and the output has a backtrace. I've been on that problem for about five hours now so I really need help for this. Thanks in advance.

My xorg.conf file:
Section "Module"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
# Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "standby time" "10"
Option "DefaultServerLayout" "Layout 1"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
# Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
# Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
# Option "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "hp f1723"
# HorizSync 31.5 - 79.0
# VertRefresh 50-100
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI HD 2400 Pro"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "DRI" "false"
Option "UseFastTLS" "0"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "off"
Option "KernelModuleParm" "agplock=0"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
EndSection
#Section "Device"
# Identifier "ATI HD 2400 Pro (OSD)"
# Driver "radeonhd"
#EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "ATI HD 2400 Pro"
Monitor "hp f1723"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
# ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout 1"
Screen "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Mouse" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Here is the (huge) X11 log: http://rafb.net/p/4Y5Qsp72.html (I wasn't able to post it in this topic because it was too long (53181 characters but only 10000 are allowed).

Thank you for any help!

edit: Moderators, you might consider moving this topic to Linux Graphics/ AMD/ATI Linux
Thanks ;)

[N-0-X]

Okay, I've finally advanced a little bit I think.
Instead of compiling via-agp in the kernel, I compiled it as a module and now when I load it, I can actually start X with DRI enabled (it doesn't crash anymore).
The only problem is the screen is completely black and even when I go back in a tty, the screen is just black...

[N-0-X]

I almost have a victory here...
I finally decided my self to move the file glesx.so somewhere else because actually, it might of been the source of the problem. Thanks to that, I can start X with DRI and (that's the "cherry on the cake") fglrxinfo no longer says "Mesa" but "ATI". That actually solves the problem but, not exactly.

In fact, when I execute fglrxinfo, it gives me the three firsts lines and then the system crashes... (Thank gosh for Alt+System+REISUB).
That actually happens for anything which used GLX (like glxgears).

[Swoopy]

See: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?p=23885#post23885

Compiling via-agp as a module is something I hadn't looked into yet,
but from what I can see on my Ubuntu 7.10 2.6.22-14 kernel, it IS a module.

[N-0-X]

The bug is already on the ATi bugzilla: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989
It seems that some things can start working if you tweak the options...

[Swoopy]

"But I don't want to tweak the options, I just want a driver that WORKS with my shiny new €150+ AGP card." ;)

Oh well .... *sigh*.... radeonhd is looking better and better lately.

[N-0-X]

How good is radeonhd looking? Does it use the hardware HD decoder? That's all I want...

[Swoopy]

I haven't done anything with HD on my 2600XT AGP yet, so I can't comment to that.
radeonhd at the moment is JUST a display driver - it displays my desktop in 24 bit colour. That's it.
There's no 3d Acceleration, not even 2d acceleration (still, it's faster on my system than fglrx without DRI) so if your CPU gets busy, video tearing is occasionally visible (and you have to use the x11 (Ximage/shm) video port to play back in Mplayer or derivatives).

2d acceleration is around the corner, with 3d likely following close behind, but radeonhd can't hold a candle yet to the features I got used to when I had an NVidia 6600 GT card in my system.

Still, radeonhd is the best option available to me right now, for my HD2600XT AGP. Most important for me under Linux is to be able to work on photo-editing, e-mail and internet browsing and with radeonhd, I can do that.

[N-0-X]

Okay.
I'll try to compare the radeonhd driver and the tweaked fglrx that I use for the moment (I enabled DRI in my xorg.conf but moved the file glesx.so so I could start up X).

For the moment, every graphical application is very slow, even when I move a window around in Fluxbox (the repait takes like two seconds and flickers)!

[Swoopy]

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=843&num=1 in case you have trouble finding it. Current version on git should be 1.1.0

[N-0-X]

The AMD/ATI website says that HD2400 have an AVIVO chip (which is why I got a 2400HD card) so maybe should I use the Avivo driver instead of the fglrx "normal" one.
A tutorial is online: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=777&num=1

I'll try that next week (because I don't have access to my so-called HD-Box until then).

[N-0-X]

Okay, so I got to try the radeonhd and avivo drivers.
The Radeonhd doesn't support "Component" plugin yet (or at least, that is what Gentoo's manual says (man radeonhd), I used Portage), so it totally useless to me as my computer is plugged-into my HDTV though the Component (viva real hd!). So when I try to start X, radeonhd simply says it found screens but none are usable.
About the Avivo driver, when I went on their webpage, the last commit was Thu, 4 Oct 2007, so it seems kind of a dead project... (http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=avivo/xf86-video-avivo.git;a=summary).

Then, I reinstalled fglrx to see if any changes were made in a week but I still get the Glesx.so problem (backtrace and all that crap).

Finally, I decided to boot under windows XP and try to get the latests ATI/AMD drivers. So, I got on their website, go to download the one for the 2400HD card and see: "Driver for 2400HD (PCIe only)". Great! ATI didn't even make a driver for the AGP card yet!!! Woohoo! Kudos for ATI! They sell a card for which they didn't even make drivers for!! Now how f**king useless is that?! What a rip-off!
Dang, this is the first and last time I *ever* make a mistake like this one: buying an ATI graphic card...

[bridgman]

There was a hotfix driver published recently for HD2xxx AGP Windows products. Please reply back here if you don't find the link.

We're working on the same support for Linux.

[N-0-X]

Oh, sorry, I wasn't aware of the hotfix. All I did was go on the AMD website, click on "ati drivers" (or something like that) then "get the latest drivers" and there wasn't any mention of 2400HD AGP version.
Anyways, I googled it and fell here: http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=29837

That didn't help at all. When I lanuch the setup, everything seems to work correctly then a nice error says that my "video or my operating system is not supported. Setup will exit." (It something along that line, I've just translated it from French). That is same error message I got with catalyst 8.something I tried to install yesterday (not knowing there was any hotfix)...
I suppose that is not the correct link since it doesn't work.

[bridgman]

That link seems to go to an older driver (7.9). Give me a minute...

[bridgman]

OK, here we go. Try this :

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=31625

[N-0-X]

OK, here we go. Try this :

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/d...estionID=31625

Thanks for your help but the link didn't go though. There "..." in the link.:confused:

[bridgman]

Thanks for your help but the link didn't go though. There "..." in the link.:confused:

I broke the link while pasting it to a new post. I was probably fixing while you were clicking :)

Please refresh this page and try again.

[kreib]

I haven't done anything with HD on my 2600XT AGP yet, so I can't comment to that.
radeonhd at the moment is JUST a display driver - it displays my desktop in 24 bit colour. That's it.
There's no 3d Acceleration, not even 2d acceleration (still, it's faster on my system than fglrx without DRI) so if your CPU gets busy, video tearing is occasionally visible (and you have to use the x11 (Ximage/shm) video port to play back in Mplayer or derivatives).

2d acceleration is around the corner, with 3d likely following close behind, but radeonhd can't hold a candle yet to the features I got used to when I had an NVidia 6600 GT card in my system.

Still, radeonhd is the best option available to me right now, for my HD2600XT AGP. Most important for me under Linux is to be able to work on photo-editing, e-mail and internet browsing and with radeonhd, I can do that.

That's interesting. I have a geforce 6200 agp and I'm very satisfied with that card. If AMD someday delivers a driver that enables all the features of HD 2600 agp on linux, what extra features are you expecting to get compared to your GF 6600?

[Swoopy]

That's interesting. I have a geforce 6200 agp and I'm very satisfied with that card. If AMD someday delivers a driver that enables all the features of HD 2600 agp on linux, what extra features are you expecting to get compared to your GF 6600?

I got the HD2600XT AGP as a speed upgrade for Direct3D games in Windows XP, and DirectX10 support, should the move to Vista (more and more interesting Vista-only FPS coming out) prove interesting enough to make me do it.

For Linux, there were no benefits in my move from nv6600GT AGP to Ati HD2600XT AGP, rather the contrary.

[centx]

I got the HD2600XT AGP as a speed upgrade for Direct3D games in Windows XP, and DirectX10 support, should the move to Vista (more and more interesting Vista-only FPS coming out) prove interesting enough to make me do it.

For Linux, there were no benefits in my move from nv6600GT AGP to Ati HD2600XT AGP, rather the contrary.

Sorry for being a bit off-topic, but I am currently considering to upgrade from my vn6600gt (AGP) to what I had the impression of being a better card, HD2600XT (AGP). Would I be wrong assuming the ATI one will be better (I am running purely linux) than the NV one?

Regards centx

(My first post here on phoronix, Yohoo!)

[Swoopy]

Sorry for being a bit off-topic, but I am currently considering to upgrade from my vn6600gt (AGP) to what I had the impression of being a better card, HD2600XT (AGP). Would I be wrong assuming the ATI one will be better (I am running purely linux) than the NV one?

Regards centx

(My first post here on phoronix, Yohoo!)

Since you state you run purely linux, my strong recommendation to you is to stick with the vn6600gt.

The Radeon HD2xxx AGP cards have no 2d or 3d or direct rendering support available at all in Linux currently,
and even the PCIe implementations of the driver(s) out there are dodgy from what I can see on this forum.
If I wasn't into playing the occasional Windows Direct3D FPS game now and then, I'd take back my 6600GT AGP for my Linux box and let my girlfriend have the HD2600XT.

Currently in Linux I am using the open source radeonhd driver (no acceleration to speak of but my dual-core CPU and memory speed can make up for that)

If the fglrx driver ever cleans up and includes proper AGP support as well as 3d accel, proper OpenGL and compiz support, I might go for a 3850 AGP card once the price drops a bit, but for Linux-only use right now, GeForce 6xxx series or higher AGP cards are far superior, purely due to the driver software :(
(Something that should, after all, be easy to fix for AMD/ATI, just a matter of resourcing.)

For Windows Direct3D performance, the HD2600XT AGP (with some overclocking but I did that with the 6600GT AGP too) with 512 MB DDR3 memory performs 2 - 3x faster in measured FPS and 3dMark06 score, so once proper driver support is there, the HD2600XT AGP IS a far superior card (if you give it enough fast memory - go for a 512MB GDDR3 version, not a 256MB DDR2 one).

[centx]

Thanks for the informative reply!

To be honest, I believed 2600XT to be the best graphics card out there, with support for AGP. Seems I was wrong in that assumption as HD3850 seems to me to be a far superior card.

I was thinking about upgrading my system (dual xeon, 1,5GB ram) with a better GC, instead of buying new. This will probably mean that I will end up buying a HD3850 instead =)

Any ideas on how HD3850 will perform vs the best NV card that comes with AGP?

[Swoopy]

Thanks for the informative reply!

To be honest, I believed 2600XT to be the best graphics card out there, with support for AGP. Seems I was wrong in that assumption as HD3850 seems to me to be a far superior card.

I was thinking about upgrading my system (dual xeon, 1,5GB ram) with a better GC, instead of buying new. This will probably mean that I will end up buying a HD3850 instead =)

Any ideas on how HD3850 will perform vs the best NV card that comes with AGP?

Well, the guy who lives next door to me has a PCIe 8600GT (overclocked edition).
On most graphics-intensive Windows Direct3D benchmarks we tried, our systems scored about equal. (We have similar amounts of RAM running at similar speeds, he has a single core CPU that runs at about the same speed as my dual cores, so for single-threaded stuff, the comparison appears to be fair).

That means in my book that HD2600XT is on a par with nv8600GT for performance.
The fastest NV chipset for AGP ever was the 7950 (not sure which letter designation, GT, GS or GTS).
So the trick is to find a benchmark comparing the 8600 against the 7950 chiposet and you'll know.

The HD3850 is in my expectation about twice as fast as the HD2600XT on Direct3D apps.
If I were buying a windows directX AGP card today, that's what I would be looking at. (I still might buy it a few months on if the price drops a bit).

For my system, dual-core running at 2x 2.7+ GHz, 4 GB RAM with a measured transfer speed of over 4.5 GB/sec, I see no compelling reason yet to upgrade to PCIe and DDR2 .... so one more faster AGP card appears rational to me. If they ever get that darn fglrx linux driver fixed for the AGP radeonhd series!

I doubt that even the AGP 8x bus is maxed out in most Direct3D apps, given the rationale behind equipping a PCIe 16x slot with an X2 card that is essentially the equivalent of two 8x AGP cards, to just get that PCIe bus filled up fully.
Apart from faster/bigger texture transfers (should be a minor issue during gameplay if you have enough RAM on your GPU card) I don't see a compelling performance reason to really want PCIe right now.

-edit-: some browsing showed me to expect that the 7950GT slightly edges out over Ati's X1950Pro chipset for performance.
I believe that for performance, one can buy the HD3850 AGP 8x with some confidence :D
For Linux only, I'd still be VERY weary of getting any ATI RadeonHD AGP card.
I'm stuck with the open source radeonhd driver for now, leaving all that performance potential in my card completely untapped.

[harvy]

Hi people. My question is related to HD2400 AGP on openSUSE. Well, I've installed driver as written in tutorial.

glxinfo shows us -
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO AGP
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7412 Release

After trying glxgears or playing movie system freezes completely. Plus refresh rate of a mon is a some kind of "waves".. Any ideas, suggestions?

[Swoopy]

Hi people. My question is related to HD2400 AGP on openSUSE. Well, I've installed driver as written in tutorial.

glxinfo shows us -
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO AGP
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7412 Release

After trying glxgears or playing movie system freezes completely. Plus refresh rate of a mon is a some kind of "waves".. Any ideas, suggestions?

If you want to get any kind of specific help you should probably post:
-the driver version you installed
-a link to the tutorial you followed (there are many on the Internets)
-a copy of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf you're trying to run with
-what kind of monitor you have attached and which resolution you're trying to run

Having stated that, if you're using the fglrx driver and are having issues,
starting from scratch by running (as root)
aticonfig --initial -f
and
aticonfig --overlay="Xv"
never seems to be a bad idea - make a backup copy of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to a name & place where you can retrieve it during a safe-mode boot before you do so (the commands should also do that but still ....)


HTH

[harvy]

Driver version is 8.42.3

Tutorial at http://en.opensuse.org/ATI (1-click-install)

My xorg.conf:

# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2008-05-31T00:31:40+0600.
#
# Version: 8.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"
FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
Option "IgnoreABI" "on"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "kbd"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "9"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
DisplaySize 478 296
HorizSync 31.5-50.0
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "1680X1050@60HZ"
Option "DPMS" "true"
VendorName "--> LCD"
VertRefresh 40.0-90.0
UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
Modeline "1680x1050" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
EndSection

Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1024" "1600x1000" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1024" "1600x1000" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1024" "1600x1000" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1024" "1600x1000" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection

Section "Device"
BoardName "ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO AGP (RV610 94C4)"
Driver "fglrx"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Option "Textured2D" "on"
Option "TexturedXrender" "on"
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "TexturedVideo" "on"
Option "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"
Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "no"
Option "backingstore" "true"
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"
Option "mtrr" "off"
Option "FSAAScale" "1"
Option "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
Option "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"
Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x00000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"
Option "UseFastTLS" "2"
Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
Option "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAEnable" "no"
Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x00000000"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "no_dri" "no"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"
Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
Option "Stereo" "off"
Option "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"
Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"
Option "CenterMode" "off"
Screen 0
VendorName "ATI"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Screen "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "DAMAGE" "false"
EndSection


My monitor is 22" Acer, res. 1680x1050

[Swoopy]

Driver version is 8.42.3

Tutorial at http://en.opensuse.org/ATI (1-click-install)

My xorg.conf:

# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2008-05-31T00:31:40+0600.
#
# Version: 8.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"
FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
Option "IgnoreABI" "on"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "kbd"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "9"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
DisplaySize 478 296
HorizSync 31.5-50.0
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "1680X1050@60HZ"
Option "DPMS" "true"
VendorName "--> LCD"
VertRefresh 40.0-90.0
UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
Modeline "1680x1050" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
EndSection

Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1024" "1600x1000" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1024" "1600x1000" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1024" "1600x1000" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1024" "1600x1000" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection

Section "Device"
BoardName "ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO AGP (RV610 94C4)"
Driver "fglrx"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Option "Textured2D" "on"
Option "TexturedXrender" "on"
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "TexturedVideo" "on"
Option "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"
Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "no"
Option "backingstore" "true"
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"
Option "mtrr" "off"
Option "FSAAScale" "1"
Option "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
Option "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"
Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x00000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"
Option "UseFastTLS" "2"
Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
Option "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAEnable" "no"
Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x00000000"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "no_dri" "no"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"
Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
Option "Stereo" "off"
Option "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"
Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"
Option "CenterMode" "off"
Screen 0
VendorName "ATI"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Screen "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "DAMAGE" "false"
EndSection


My monitor is 22" Acer, res. 1680x1050

You've very many xorg.conf options set, such as StereoSyncEnabled etc. etc. (A treasure trove of options that I'd never heard of before.
Did you hand-add them to xorg.conf for any specific reason?
I would definitely go with an "initial" xorg.conf as one of your troubleshooting steps. With some of the xorg.conf options you are using, I suspect they can do as much harm as good.
-edit- p.s. maybe you should try with a later version of the driver too, such as Catalyst 8-5 (version 8.49.1)?

[harvy]

No, options were added by suse installer, I've changed only few e.g. "UseFastTLS" "2" instead of "0" as was suggested in the tutorial.
Also, I've tried 8.5 version, the same result with "waves".
Well, you say I may go with an "initial" xorg.conf? e.g. like this? -
aticonfig --initial -f