[opensuse] Leap42.1 upd vs 42.2 AMD flglrx error: how to force the install of the opensource AMD drivers?
Hi, I did an error with a machine updating it. All worked fine, I can login, I have access to the files system and I found out no graphical login, no kde. The reason is a stupid assumption I made doing the upgrade with zypper dup. I did take of the leap42.1 repo with the graphics driver from AMD (proprietary) and expected leap to substitute the orphaned one with the opensource version. Now I found out it preserves them and this leads to a non graphical system. In principle I have only to take off every proprietary remains and install the opensource driver. Question: how do I force the system to do this yast or zypper I do care? what drivers I have to make sure are erased when doing this, not to have proprietary remains any more. I tried with AMD as search terms but this gives a hudge number of libs (flgrlx i did uninstall, did run mkinitrd, but for now it does not work). So I guess I will have to force the install of the OSS AMD driver..........if I only would know what package I have to install. Thank you for all suggestions. PS. the AMD card is fairly new and low profile (taken I think about month ago. But I admit I do not recall the chipset. (And...I do not know how to find out, BIOS?). --- Die Bundesliga hat begonnen! Alle Tore, alle Ergebnisse, alle News: Pocket Liga jetzt im https://app.adjust.com/dpynzd oder https://app.adjust.com/dpynzd herunterladen - kostenlos! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
stakanov@freenet.de wrote:
PS. the AMD card is fairly new and low profile (taken I think about month ago. But I admit I do not recall the chipset. (And...I do not know how to find out, BIOS?).
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On 22.12.2016 10:09, stakanov@freenet.de wrote:
Hi, I did an error with a machine updating it. All worked fine, I can login, I have access to the files system and I found out no graphical login, no kde. The reason is a stupid assumption I made doing the upgrade with zypper dup. I did take of the leap42.1 repo with the graphics driver from AMD (proprietary) and expected leap to substitute the orphaned one with the opensource version. Now I found out it preserves them and this leads to a non graphical system. In principle I have only to take off every proprietary remains and install the opensource driver.
Question: how do I force the system to do this yast or zypper I do care?
If the driver is in an RPM package, find out the name (search for "amd" in yast) and uninstall it. If you installed it using something you downloaded from the AMD site, google for "amd linux uninstall". Regards, -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://blog.pdark.de/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 12/22/2016 01:09 AM, stakanov@freenet.de wrote:
PS. the AMD card is fairly new and low profile (taken I think about month ago. But I admit I do not recall the chipset. (And...I do not know how to find out, BIOS?).
If the card is in fact fairly new, trying to use the opensource one may be exactly the wrong choice. You MUST find the chipsit version as Per suggested and look up if that is supported by the opensource driver. If NOT then you probably have to uninstall the opensource and go through the re-install process for the commercial version simply because the kernel changed versions. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
John Andersen wrote:
On 12/22/2016 01:09 AM, stakanov@freenet.de wrote:
PS. the AMD card is fairly new and low profile (taken I think about month ago. But I admit I do not recall the chipset. (And...I do not know how to find out, BIOS?).
If the card is in fact fairly new, trying to use the opensource one may be exactly the wrong choice. You MUST find the chipsit version as Per suggested and look up if that is supported by the opensource driver.
Looking at the lspci listing he sent, the card appears to be of the HD5000 series, which is some five years old. I would expect it to have excellent driver support. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.7°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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