Feature changed by: Helen South (helen-au) Feature #310975, revision 2 Title: Video Driver Pre-Install Script for ATI Installation openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Helen South (helen-au) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Installing ATI Catalyst is problematic, possibly due to pre-existing FGLRX drivers which need to be removed before installation of the ATI drivers. It's remarkably easy for a non technical user to come up with a botched installation. Doubly so for the 64 bit version which has 32 bit dependencies. openSUSE needs some sort of easy-install process, which will find and remove any conflicting FGLRX drivers, and if possible download and install the right ATI driver for the current kernel. Business case (Partner benefit): - openSUSE.org: Because the current instructions on a selection of forums - and wikis are confusing, and the latest release of the ATI driver seems - to conflict with the 11.3 kernel, and this type of frustration with - installation is a dealbreaker for many users. + openSUSE.org: Reducing the confusion created by having to search + through a range of instructions on forums and wikis, many of which are + lengthy and with convoluted command line solutions that have variable + succes. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310975

Feature changed by: Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) Feature #310975, revision 4 Title: Video Driver Pre-Install Script for ATI Installation - openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed + openSUSE Distribution: Rejected by Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) + reject reason: fglrx drivers are deprecated now, and proprietary nature + of fglrx makes this legally dubious. Priority - Requester: Important + Requester: Desirable Requested by: Helen South (helen-au) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Installing ATI Catalyst is problematic, possibly due to pre-existing FGLRX drivers which need to be removed before installation of the ATI drivers. It's remarkably easy for a non technical user to come up with a botched installation. Doubly so for the 64 bit version which has 32 bit dependencies. openSUSE needs some sort of easy-install process, which will find and remove any conflicting FGLRX drivers, and if possible download and install the right ATI driver for the current kernel. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Reducing the confusion created by having to search through a range of instructions on forums and wikis, many of which are lengthy and with convoluted command line solutions that have variable succes. Discussion: #1: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) (2010-12-16 09:36:24) I note user "please_try_again" in openSUSE forums, is working on a script ... here is a thread documenting some of his efforts: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/development/programming-scripting/449058-... ... Assuming this script like this reaches a level of desired maturity, is it the sort of script that could be included with an openSUSE distribution version ? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310975