Thanks for the great explanation Mikus. Do you have any info on whether this driver will support the new Radeon X1900XTX card? Thanks! ________________________________________ Ricardo R Palma SYNOPSIS SA Telef. (+51 1) 275-4941 / 275-4708 / 275-7523 email : rrpalma@synopsis.ws www.synopsis.ws -----mikus@bga.com (Mikus Grinbergs) wrote: ----- To: suse-amd64@suse.com From: mikus@bga.com (Mikus Grinbergs) Date: 02/12/2006 06:36PM Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] ATI driver does not show SuSE On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:30:15 -0600 Sunny wrote:
Thanks, I would prefer to wait a little before I bite the bullet and with that kind of install. At least until someone from the list confirms that this is OK.
Two things: 1) In my answer to you, I tried to convey that these days it is __EASY__ to install the ATI drivers - close to a no-brainer. My apologies -- I see that I did not succeed.
According to the instructions from suse site, running the install script with --get-supported option should list all supported distros/versions, incl. SuSE 10.0. Unfortunately, this installer from ati does not list SuSE at all. That's my confusion, as I'd prefer to use this way of installing the driver, with rpm.
2) I went to the ATI site, the 'Downloads and Programs' section, and drilled down using 'Linux' and 'x86_64'. That led me to 'ati-driver-installer-8.22.5-x86_64.run'. Downloaded it. Used 'sh' to run it with '--get-supported' option. It listed ___SIX___ SuSE x86_64 distros/versions that were supported. mikus -------- You wanted an assurance that it would work. To prove a point, I just did it on my SuSE 10.0 64 bit system: a) Used the 'fglrx-uninstall.sh' script to delete existing version b) Since SuSE's directions describe making a rpm, that's what I did with the 'ati-driver-installer' file (but in graphic mode, and following ATI's directions). [It's simpler to skip the rpm and install directly - but then it's not listed in the rpm database.] c) rpm -Uvh fglrx64_6_8_0_SUSE100-8.22.5-1.x86_64.rpm [The kernel module compile gave warnings but no errors.] d) reboot *) I'm leaving setting up xorg.conf as an exercise for the reader ;-) RESULT: I have 3D acceleration with my ATI card on my x86_64 system. I'm on the list, and I hereby confirm that this is OK -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help@suse.com