On Thursday 27 January 2005 10:17, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Running SuSE 9.2. Wanted to use the features of the ATI proprietary video driver. Installed fglrx_6_8_0-8.8.25-1.i386.rpm
But the ATI driver did not access the AGP on my A7N8X-E board. Tried various things, including reinstall/recompile of the driver. In the process, I've managed to bring 'rpm' into a confused state:
If I do 'rpm -q fglrx' it responds "package fglrx is not installed". If I do 'rpm -e fglrx_6_8_0-8.8.25-1.i386.rpm' it responds "package fglrx_6_8_0-8.8.25-1.i386.rpm is not installed". If I do 'rpm -Uv fglrx_6_8_0-8.8.25-1.i386.rpm' it responds "package fglrx_6_8_0-8.8.25-1.i386.rpm' is already installed".
Running 'rpm --rebuilddb' does not help. How do I "reset" the 'rpm' database to allow me to erase this package, and install it anew ?
ATI seems to have anticipated this problem and instructs you to use the force option ie "rpm -Uv --force fglrx..." when installing their rpm. I installed the package using YaST and was able to remove it by using YaST->Install and Remove Software then de-selecting it. Unfortunately I've been unable to get the driver to work in 9.1 so I can't offer more help than this. Jeff