Randall R Schulz wrote:
But I wanted to get all the features of this board working, so this morning I decided to attempt the latest ATI-supplied driver software.
Even though there is an ATI installer, it is still recommended to use the vendor supplied packages. SuSE makes them available at http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ATI/suse93/i386/fg... (replace with your chosen mirror and distribution). Unfortunately, not every mirror (like the above) includes the README, which has the instructions from SuSE to install very easily (you can find at http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ATI... ). That would have kept your rpm database in sync with installed packages.
A few things I'll note about this process:
- You still are instructed to run fglrxconfig after the installer completes. With SUSE's process, you may still use sax2 to configure. It was much easier to use sax2 than fglrxconfig for me. - The "fireglcontrolpanel" application installed in /usr/X11R6/bin shows that I'm running driver 8.14.13, which corresponds to the version of the installer. However, for reasons I cannot explain, the installed RPMs appear to be older:
% rpm -qa |egrep fglrx fglrx_6_8_0-8.12.10-1 km_fglrx-8.12.10-1.1
The installer install the program/modules independently of rpm. I'll guess you would see errors with rpm -V fglrx, as the files are different than the rpm database thinks.
This is puzzling and I can't say I like it, but I'm not going to upset things by trying to resolve it. At least not yet.
Actually, you could just install the SuSE rpms, which though it would replace the corresponding files with the ones in the rpms, would effectively just update the rpm database to the correctly installed version. You should not need to recompile the module not reconfigure xorg.
- As with just about any change to the video configuration, KDE flies off the handle and relocates most (but not all!) of my desktop icons to the top of the screen. It used to peeve me, but now I just take a screen snapshot first and then put everything back where I like it based on that picture.
You must have the Align to grid check marked, as mine didn't/doesn't do this. HTH. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871