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["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

peter nikolic wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 March 2009, John Andersen wrote:
> > peter nikolic wrote:
> > > Well i wish i could find a working driver for the laptop here  not had a
> > > working ATI driver for ages and the machine is what 3.5 years old  so i
> > > spose some one is going to tell me it's old hat  Errrr  i dont think so 
> > > no it ATI that are at fault totaly  i knew that AMD had made a bad choice
> > > when they took up ATI much better had it been Nvidia ..
> > >
> > > Pete .
> > Which chipset do you have in that laptop Pete?
>
> and i also am getting this from it now   i must add not on this machine 
> before 
> anyone spots the sig this box does run 10.3  and will stay for the forseeable 
> future  it is the laptop that is on 11.1 
> right that out the way  no to it .
>
> voyager:/home/pete/downloads # rpm -ivh 
> fglrx64_7_4_0_SUSE111-8.582-1.x86_64.rpm 
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libstdc++.so.5 is needed by fglrx64_7_4_0_SUSE111-8.582-1.x86_64
>         libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is needed by 
> fglrx64_7_4_0_SUSE111-8.582-1.x86_64
>         libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by 
> fglrx64_7_4_0_SUSE111-8.582-1.x86_64
>
> i can find no libstdc++.so.5  how does one solve this one .  think i must be 
> getting brain farts these days cus it just dont happen for me now 
>
> Pete .

WHOA COWBOY,

        What are you doing trying to load the 9-2 driver (8.582), first things 
first,
go get the 9-3 driver packages (Version 8.593) and then let's make another run
at getting your laptop working. The 9-2 driver was so screwed up it caused my
laptop to reboot on xdm start.

Go get:

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run

        for 10.3 x86_64 build the rpm with

sh ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE103-AMD64

        for 11.0 x86_64 build the rpm with

sh ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE110-AMD64

        for 11.1 x86_64 build the rpm with

sh ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE111-AMD64



        Then follow my install instructions (from the ATI install instructions):

***** NOTE the example below is for version (8.532) the 8-9 driver, so don't
forget to use the current package in the steps below:


(1) make sure the 'kernel-source' package is installed, if not, then install it
(as root):

        zypper in kernel-source

(2) Build the fglrx rpm from the install package.

i586:

  sh ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE110-IA32

x86_64

  sh ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE110-AMD64
        SuSE/SUSE110-AMD64

(3) make a copy of your current xorg.conf so sax2 won't screw it up

        cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /tmp/xorg.conf

************************************************
** if not in runlevel 3, go to runlevel 3 now **
************************************************

(4) (as root for all remaining commands)

        init 3

(5) Removing old fglrx driver

        rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep fglrx)

(6) Preparing the kernel source (not 100% necessary, but proper)

        cd /usr/src/linux
        make mrproper
        make cloneconfig > /dev/null 2>&1
        make modules_prepare
        make clean

(7) Install the new fglrx rpm you created, example:

        rpm -Uvh fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE110-8.532-1.x86_64.rpm

(8) Initialize your xorg.conf for the new driver:

        aticonfig --initial

(9) Add options to the end of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to enable compiz:


Section "Extensions"
        Option      "Composite" "true"
        Option      "DAMAGE" "true"
EndSection

(10) REBOOT

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