[opensuse-gnome] fglrx and recovery from a console
Can someone point me to an openSUSE Howto or procedure for recovering from the command line after a bad upgrade? I'm familiar with the steps required in Debian or Ubuntu, but they don't help here. On or about Monday of this week I was able to zypper up for the first time in weeks, and presumably got May's fglrx upgrade. My top bar has always been the wrong colour (mostly white) and the icons have been difficult to see, but after a few hours of using the new version of the driver it looked perfect for the first time, not black but transparent. Yesterday there was another upgrade, and after a restart I couldn't get to my desktop, just a black screen with the spinning progress indicator. I poked around from Console 1 for a while but did not succeed in downgrading fglrx from an rpm in my Downloads folder or getting back online from yast (since nm had failed to start). It would be nice to have a recovery procedure in these situations. Eventually I re-installed from my Live DVD stick, but that comes with its own issues since neither my video nor wireless drivers are included. I did get the latest fglrx re-installed and my top bar is back to being ugly again... a downgrade to the previous version hasn't fixed it. Thanks, Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Hi Michael, This mailing list isn't really the best place to debug a fglrx issue and being myself an ATI/AMD user I've had my share of problems in the past. I never used the package from the ATI repository and I always generate my own RPM from the installer that ATI/AMD makes available. I usually hang around on #opensuse-gnome on FreeNode (nick: nmarques), so if you get me online during one of the next days I'm sure I can help you with manually uninstalling the ATI driver (I know that the RPM from ATI does leave some residual files, but I can't confirm it for the RPM on the openSUSE ATI repository as I've never used it) and help generating a new RPM the way I usually do it. If you need an X session, the best way to get it clean is to delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf and blacklist fglrx on /etc/modprobe.d... this can be done with something like: echo "blacklist fglrx > /etc/modprobe.d/00-fglrx.conf" (as root). If rebooted after the system should be load up using the default open source driver which should work, and then I can help you removing the residual files (if any) and reinstall the driver. NM On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Michael Hill <mdhillca@gmail.com> wrote:
Can someone point me to an openSUSE Howto or procedure for recovering from the command line after a bad upgrade? I'm familiar with the steps required in Debian or Ubuntu, but they don't help here.
On or about Monday of this week I was able to zypper up for the first time in weeks, and presumably got May's fglrx upgrade. My top bar has always been the wrong colour (mostly white) and the icons have been difficult to see, but after a few hours of using the new version of the driver it looked perfect for the first time, not black but transparent. Yesterday there was another upgrade, and after a restart I couldn't get to my desktop, just a black screen with the spinning progress indicator. I poked around from Console 1 for a while but did not succeed in downgrading fglrx from an rpm in my Downloads folder or getting back online from yast (since nm had failed to start). It would be nice to have a recovery procedure in these situations.
Eventually I re-installed from my Live DVD stick, but that comes with its own issues since neither my video nor wireless drivers are included. I did get the latest fglrx re-installed and my top bar is back to being ugly again... a downgrade to the previous version hasn't fixed it.
Thanks,
Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
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On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@gmail.com> wrote:
If you need an X session, the best way to get it clean is to delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf and blacklist fglrx on /etc/modprobe.d... this can be done with something like: echo "blacklist fglrx > /etc/modprobe.d/00-fglrx.conf" (as root).
Thanks, Nelson. This is probably all I need to get started next time. When I get a chance I'll look you up on IRC to discuss the Radeon driver (I have an HD 6310 and the default seems to be backup mode--the reason I switched to fglrx). Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Thanks, Nelson. This is probably all I need to get started next time. When I get a chance I'll look you up on IRC to discuss the Radeon driver (I have an HD 6310 and the default seems to be backup mode--the reason I switched to fglrx).
Hi, So you are with GNOME3... I think you are with a problem them, I'm not sure now, but last time I checked r800 chipsets weren't supported by the open source driver (therefore you're getting the 'fallback' mode). Only Catalyst should provide support for those yet, which is an issue because Catalyst (including 11.6 has problems with GNOME3). I've opened this bug report report in the past[1]... but since then... didn't got fixed by AMD. [1] - http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=99 NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@gmail.com> wrote:
So you are with GNOME3... I think you are with a problem them, I'm not sure now, but last time I checked r800 chipsets weren't supported by the open source driver (therefore you're getting the 'fallback' mode). Only Catalyst should provide support for those yet, which is an issue because Catalyst (including 11.6 has problems with GNOME3).
Thanks, Nelson, good to know. I can tolerate some visibility problems with the top bar in the fglrx driver in the meantime. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
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