SuSE Professional 9 and Radeon 9800
Hi, Just wondering if SuSE Personal/Professional 9 will support ATI's Radeon 9800 graphics card? Unfortunately couldn't find any information about it within the hardware database nor anything regarding what version 9 will support on the main product information page. Regards, Martyn -- Martyn Drake | Email : martyn-d@moving-picture.com Systems Administrator | Web : http://www.moving-picture.com The Moving Picture Company | Phone : +44 (0)20 7494 7187
Doesn't that depend on the card? You can download ATI drivers for Linux from their site: http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html Just select Linux (It's at the very bottom for some reason) and you should be good to go. -JM -----Original Message----- From: Martyn Drake [mailto:martyn-d@moving-picture.com] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 8:06 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] SuSE Professional 9 and Radeon 9800 Hi, Just wondering if SuSE Personal/Professional 9 will support ATI's Radeon 9800 graphics card? Unfortunately couldn't find any information about it within the hardware database nor anything regarding what version 9 will support on the main product information page. Regards, Martyn -- Martyn Drake | Email : martyn-d@moving-picture.com Systems Administrator | Web : http://www.moving-picture.com The Moving Picture Company | Phone : +44 (0)20 7494 7187 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Jordan Michaels wrote:
Doesn't that depend on the card?
You can download ATI drivers for Linux from their site: http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html
Just select Linux (It's at the very bottom for some reason) and you should be good to go.
I was thinking more of initial 2D support than 3D to at least get a basic 1280x1024 resolution in 32-bit colour. As for 3D support, I guess it would be a case of installing the RPM as described on the ATI site and then re-running SaX? Regards, Martyn -- Martyn Drake | Email : martyn-d@moving-picture.com Systems Administrator | Web : http://www.moving-picture.com The Moving Picture Company | Phone : +44 (0)20 7494 7187
Jordan Michaels wrote:
Doesn't that depend on the card?
You can download ATI drivers for Linux from their site: http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html
Just select Linux (It's at the very bottom for some reason) and you should be good to go.
I was thinking more of initial 2D support than 3D to at least get a basic 1280x1024 resolution in 32-bit colour. As for 3D support, I guess it would be a case of installing the RPM as described on the ATI site and then re-running SaX? Regards, Martyn -- Martyn Drake | Email : martyn-d@moving-picture.com Systems Administrator | Web : http://www.moving-picture.com The Moving Picture Company | Phone : +44 (0)20 7494 7187
You should not use Sax to configure it but fglrxconfig which is installed by the rpm package from ATI. Yvon Martyn Drake wrote:
Jordan Michaels wrote:
Doesn't that depend on the card?
You can download ATI drivers for Linux from their site: http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html
Just select Linux (It's at the very bottom for some reason) and you should be good to go.
I was thinking more of initial 2D support than 3D to at least get a basic 1280x1024 resolution in 32-bit colour.
As for 3D support, I guess it would be a case of installing the RPM as described on the ATI site and then re-running SaX?
Regards,
Martyn
Does anyone know of any issues that have to do with the SUSE LINUX Professional 9 and NVidia driver, and what versions of the NVidia drivers will work with it? -- ---- For Information on x86 Linux and PPC Linux visit my site at: http://www.geocities.com/kane121975/ Many FAQs and howtos for Linux available
Does anyone know of any issues that have to do with the SUSE LINUX Professional 9 and NVidia driver, and what versions of the NVidia drivers will work with it?
Given that the nVidia drivers are packaged up as an executable installer now, rather than as RPMs, I would guess the latest version will probably install just fine when YOU downloads it at the end of the install. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday October 13 2003 00:05, James Ogley wrote:
Does anyone know of any issues that have to do with the SUSE LINUX Professional 9 and NVidia driver, and what versions of the NVidia drivers will work with it?
Given that the nVidia drivers are packaged up as an executable installer now, rather than as RPMs, I would guess the latest version will probably install just fine when YOU downloads it at the end of the install. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org
Ok, at the SuSE ftp site, in the supplementary/XFree86 directory is a howto file that give directions on how to do this. I had to goto great lengths during beta testing to get this work at first. But after the updates/fixes is was much easier. Furthermore, the config of 3rd party modules has been changed to accomodate stuff like the nvidia drivers and kernel updates in order to make it easier to actually update the kernel without destroying the mods such as these so you won't have to continually reinstall the drivers. How well it works I couldn't say because the info was not completed when I was testing. From: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ nvidia-installer-HOWTO: A. SuSE Linux 9.0 - ----------------- 1) Kernel sources must be installed and configured. Usually this means installing the 'kernel-source' package with YaST2. 2) Use the nvidia installer. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run 3) Save the binary-part of nvidia kernel module, so the nvidia kernel module can be re-linked during a kernel update and therefore the nvidia driver installation will survive a future kernel update as well. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --extract-only cp NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv-kernel.o \ /lib/modules/scripts/nvidia/nv-kernel.o-1.0-4496 4) Enable 3D support with SaX2. I am a bit niffed about the new website on this matter insofar as previously one could look at a breakdown of packages for "professionals" on the SuSE product page. So far I have not seen this in the new website format - essentially little if any info other than market crap is on it - PITY (or should I say PITA). So, looking into info about how the new kernal mods/3rd party mods are handle, at least on a rudimentary level, is accessible AFAIK. HTH, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ilauiqnGhdjCOJsRAktNAJwNcwU+eTIXtfgCUnInQR0GLzqZ9wCfWYtv zSGsJsWNjTK+d2R6lajMrv0= =APe6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Jordan Michaels wrote:
Doesn't that depend on the card?
You can download ATI drivers for Linux from their site: http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html
Just select Linux (It's at the very bottom for some reason) and you should be good to go.
-JM
Is this is the 3.2.5 version ? If so, it didn't work with the 2.4.21-xx SUSE kernel. Saying it's not the right kernel.
-----Original Message----- From: Martyn Drake [mailto:martyn-d@moving-picture.com] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 8:06 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] SuSE Professional 9 and Radeon 9800
Hi,
Just wondering if SuSE Personal/Professional 9 will support ATI's Radeon 9800 graphics card? Unfortunately couldn't find any information about it within the hardware database nor anything regarding what version 9 will support on the main product information page.
Regards,
Martyn
-- Martyn Drake | Email : martyn-d@moving-picture.com Systems Administrator | Web : http://www.moving-picture.com The Moving Picture Company | Phone : +44 (0)20 7494 7187
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On Thursday 09 October 2003 02:17 pm, S. Bulterman wrote:
Jordan Michaels wrote:
Doesn't that depend on the card?
You can download ATI drivers for Linux from their site: http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html
Just select Linux (It's at the very bottom for some reason) and you should be good to go.
-JM
Is this is the 3.2.5 version ? If so, it didn't work with the 2.4.21-xx SUSE kernel. Saying it's not the right kernel.
-----Original Message----- From: Martyn Drake [mailto:martyn-d@moving-picture.com] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 8:06 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] SuSE Professional 9 and Radeon 9800
Hi,
Just wondering if SuSE Personal/Professional 9 will support ATI's Radeon 9800 graphics card? Unfortunately couldn't find any information about it within the hardware database nor anything regarding what version 9 will support on the main product information page.
Regards,
Martyn =====================
Mantel's kernel 2.4.21-99 and 2.4.21-108 both contained the fglrx module for the newer ATI cards, so just installing the the 3.2.5 ATI binary will suffice in getting it running. DO NOT RUN sax2 if you are using the ATI binary. It requires another program to config your graphics and if you use sax2, it will kill the proper links the ATI software makes to get it working. For the ATI driver, you will use fglrxconfig from the command line to configure your graphics card. I would suspect that SuSE 9.0 will contain an even newer version of XFree86 in it, thus providing at least 2D with that card. My 9200 works nicely with the ATI 3.2.5 drivers and Mantel's kernel. Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
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BandiPat
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Curtis Rey
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James Ogley
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Jordan Michaels
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Martyn Drake
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Roberto Dohnert
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S. Bulterman
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Yvon VODOUNON