On Thursday 03 May 2007 23:20, John Andersen wrote:
Download it and run it from init 3 in a shell as root. It makes an rpm which you then install. Thanks... for the archive, this was my good experience:
3D accelerated graphics on the ATI Radeon X1050 is supported on the openSUSE platform (drivers from ATI AMD) albeit not out of box. The radeon driver will talk to the card (RV370), but no 2D,3D. First I downloaded the following driver from: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html ati-driver-installer-8.36.5-x86.x86_64.run ... and then I followed the system requirements instructions found here: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.36... The installer download creates a linux distribution dependent rpm package based on probing and some basic interactive questions. SuSE 9,9.1,9.2,10.0,10.1 are supported. I did not see an entry for 10.2 specifically, but will probably work fine. The rpm can be installed in the normal non yast way: rpm -ivh fglrx_6_8_0_SUSE100-8.36.5-1.i386.rpm The package actually builds the fglrx.ko module on-the-fly--- which is why the kernel development packages need to be loaded (headers and includes at least) as well as gcc, and the xorg libraries-- and a couple others, see system requirements. The fglrx.ko module is installed following the compile, then the user is instructed to run aticonfig. There were a couple of compile/link warnings, but the build went smoothly and successfully installed the fglrx.ko module. The recommended sax2 instruction failed on my machine: sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx -b /usr/....../profile [ sax2 would not start on my hardware] --- reboot... ctl-alt-dlt So I had to punt.... What I did instead was to run sax2 -r which built a correct xorg.conf file, installed the default radeon (non 3D accel) which gives aticonfig something to work from that is stable. Then I ran the aticonfig with this: aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf aticonfig then modifies the xorg.conf file with device entries that will correctly load the fglrx module. This went very smoothly--- and following, 3D accelerated graphics were enabled and X started without problem. The Radeon X1050 ( ~$104) is an older RV370 chip used in the X300, X550, and X600--- to name a few. ATI/AMD reworked the packaging, changed the name, and put it back on the market as an entry level 3D upgrade. Its Vista capable (what isn't these days) and while it does not support Shade 3.0, it does support Shade 2.0, has four pipes, 75million transistors, 256MB on-board, and comes in either an 8X AGP or PCI Express package. Its no top-of-the-line game card to be sure, but for the money its a very nice 3D upgrade... all of the 3D games and stuff that ship with openSUSE 10.0 look great! The down side is that once the ATI/AMD drivers are installed sax2 cannot be used to tweak the monitor and card... so make sure you do all that "before" you run the aticonfig. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org