On 2/12/06, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:

In list.sx64, you wrote on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:40:38 -0600:

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Hi, following the instructions from here: http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/ati-installer-HOWTO.html I downloaded the driver from ati.com. Actually I now have both 8.21.7 and 8.22.5 versions (x86_64) versions.

Anyway, both of them, when invoked with --get-supported display only different versions of Ubuntu, Debian and Mandriva. Suse and RedHat are not displayed, so I can not pre-build rpms for SuSE.

Can anyone confirm this, before I get over ati :), or my system (10.0 x86_64, apt-getted to the last) is confusing the installer for some reason.

Had a hard time understanding your question.

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.

I decided (correctly or incorrectly) that the pre-built version from ATI (12 MB or so) did not have the best-fit to my SuSE 10.0 (64 bit) system. Instead, I downloaded the installer version from ATI (33 MB or so). I then executed *that* file to install the ATI driver on my system.

[I've actually done this twice - once on a SuSE 10.0 (32 bit) system, where the fglrx driver runs fine. A second time on a SuSE 10.0 (64 bit) system, where the install ran, but I have not yet rebooted to "switch" to the fglrx driver. (I'm waiting for a 24/7 application to crash before doing the reboot.) ]

mikus

p.s. The compile of the "kernel" portion of the ATI driver had an error code, but at least on my 32 bit system the whole ATI fglrx driver works anyway.

pps. At an earlier time, when I was upgrading the 32 bit system's kernel, the ATI-supplied script (for such a situation) *properly* recompiled the "kernel" portion of the ATI driver.

But this time, the ATI-supplied script to "uninstall" the ATI driver left quite a few files still on my hard disk. To be safe, I manually deleted them before doing the latest version install.

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. Cheers -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)