[opensuse] New ATI Drivers today

John Andersen

17 Apr 2008 17 Apr '08

01:17

http://ati.amd.com/online/rss/atilinuxdriver.rss?OCT-rss New ATI drivers were posted today. I have not tried these yet, and since the 8.3 is working flawlessly, I'm not in any hurry, but those of you having problems with some ATI cards may want to check it out. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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David C. Rankin

22 Apr 22 Apr

06:34

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John Andersen wrote:

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http://ati.amd.com/online/rss/atilinuxdriver.rss?OCT-rss

New ATI drivers were posted today. I have not tried these yet, and since the 8.3 is working flawlessly, I'm not in any hurry, but those of you having problems with some ATI cards may want to check it out.

Great news, The 8.3 drivers are fantastic. I'm still using the ones I built from the installer package. I just check and the build service now has the 8.3 drivers built, but it seemed like it took a very long time for them to show up. The 8.3 driver was released on 3/8 if I recall correctly, and I remember checking the build service for weeks without anything new. Maybe the 8.4 driver will show up here fairly quickly. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

John Andersen

08:12

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On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:34 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:

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John Andersen wrote:

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http://ati.amd.com/online/rss/atilinuxdriver.rss?OCT-rss

New ATI drivers were posted today. I have not tried these yet, and since the 8.3 is working flawlessly, I'm not in any hurry, but those of you having problems with some ATI cards may want to check it out.

Great news,

The 8.3 drivers are fantastic. I'm still using the ones I built from the installer package. I just check and the build service now has the 8.3 drivers built, but it seemed like it took a very long time for them to show up. The 8.3 driver was released on 3/8 if I recall correctly, and I remember checking the build service for weeks without anything new. Maybe the 8.4 driver will show up here fairly quickly.

Why not get them direct from ATI? Their installer has always worked for me. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster

15:19

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John Andersen wrote:

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On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:34 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:

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John Andersen wrote:

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http://ati.amd.com/online/rss/atilinuxdriver.rss?OCT-rss

New ATI drivers were posted today. I have not tried these yet, and since the 8.3 is working flawlessly, I'm not in any hurry, but those of you having problems with some ATI cards may want to check it out.

Great news,

The 8.3 drivers are fantastic. I'm still using the ones I built from the installer package. I just check and the build service now has the 8.3 drivers built, but it seemed like it took a very long time for them to show up. The 8.3 driver was released on 3/8 if I recall correctly, and I remember checking the build service for weeks without anything new. Maybe the 8.4 driver will show up here fairly quickly.

Why not get them direct from ATI? Their installer has always worked for me.

ATI's Linux drivers have been nothing but trouble for me. I've always had better luck with NVidia's Linux drivers. Unfortunately my work computer (which I run opensuse on) has an ATI video card in it, and I have had to run the generic non-hw-accelerated driver to even get X11 to work. I've got that ATI X600 chip. It doesn't seem to fare well with the official ATI drivers. That, and the fact I'm running a x86_64 machine may complicate matters even more. I installed the ATI drivers that were released last week and I actually got a segfault and crashed X11. I couldn't even get back to a console and had to hard boot it. If they would work, that would be great... but I've tried everything I know (which probably isn't everything possible, but I'm not a complete novice either). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Mike

15:52

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On Tuesday 22 April 2008 17:19, Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster wrote:

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Why not get them direct from ATI? Their installer has always worked for me.

ATI's Linux drivers have been nothing but trouble for me. I've always had better luck with NVidia's Linux drivers. Unfortunately my work computer (which I run opensuse on) has an ATI video card in it, and I have had to run the generic non-hw-accelerated driver to even get X11 to work.

I've got that ATI X600 chip. It doesn't seem to fare well with the official ATI drivers. That, and the fact I'm running a x86_64 machine may complicate matters even more.

I've got an ATI X515 chip and running 64bit and one of the older drivers is still working. I haven't upgraded because it works. The one I got to work is 8.27.xx. Not sure if it's available anymore, but you might find it somewhere on their site.

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I installed the ATI drivers that were released last week and I actually got a segfault and crashed X11. I couldn't even get back to a console and had to hard boot it.

Yep, I know that. If I switch terminals and then back to X, the display locks. No way that I've found to get out of it short of a reboot. I can ssh in and reboot so at least I don't have to hit the reset switch.

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If they would work, that would be great... but I've tried everything I know (which probably isn't everything possible, but I'm not a complete novice either).

I have a feeling it's not really the graphics card, but something with the MB chipset. I've got a 32bit system that absolutely wouldn't run any of the drivers. I finally switched it to a cheap nVidia card and that worked fine. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 X86_64 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 5:47pm up 23:45, 4 users, load average: 2.19, 2.32, 2.47 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster

23:14

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Mike wrote:

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On Tuesday 22 April 2008 17:19, Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster wrote:

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Why not get them direct from ATI? Their installer has always worked for me. ATI's Linux drivers have been nothing but trouble for me. I've always had better luck with NVidia's Linux drivers. Unfortunately my work computer (which I run opensuse on) has an ATI video card in it, and I have had to run the generic non-hw-accelerated driver to even get X11 to work.

I've got that ATI X600 chip. It doesn't seem to fare well with the official ATI drivers. That, and the fact I'm running a x86_64 machine may complicate matters even more.

I've got an ATI X515 chip and running 64bit and one of the older drivers is still working. I haven't upgraded because it works. The one I got to work is 8.27.xx. Not sure if it's available anymore, but you might find it somewhere on their site.

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I installed the ATI drivers that were released last week and I actually got a segfault and crashed X11. I couldn't even get back to a console and had to hard boot it.

Yep, I know that. If I switch terminals and then back to X, the display locks. No way that I've found to get out of it short of a reboot. I can ssh in and reboot so at least I don't have to hit the reset switch.

I install the ATI drivers, restart X11 and the whole machine freezes. I can't even switch to a tty. I had to SSH in, rename my xorg.conf so X11 wouldn't find it and then reboot the machine. At that point, I could login locally and force Sax2 to load with framebuffer.

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If they would work, that would be great... but I've tried everything I know (which probably isn't everything possible, but I'm not a complete novice either).

I have a feeling it's not really the graphics card, but something with the MB chipset. I've got a 32bit system that absolutely wouldn't run any of the drivers. I finally switched it to a cheap nVidia card and that worked fine.

I wish throwing in a nVidia card in was an option, but it isn't, for various reasons. This is a DELL Optiplex GX620. While I have had some issues with DELL's computers, I've been pretty impressed with this one. Runs pretty solid and is as quiet as a church mouse.

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Mike

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Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster

28 Apr 28 Apr

23:13

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Mike wrote:

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On Tuesday 22 April 2008 17:19, Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster wrote:

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Why not get them direct from ATI? Their installer has always worked for me. ATI's Linux drivers have been nothing but trouble for me. I've always had better luck with NVidia's Linux drivers. Unfortunately my work computer (which I run opensuse on) has an ATI video card in it, and I have had to run the generic non-hw-accelerated driver to even get X11 to work.

I've got that ATI X600 chip. It doesn't seem to fare well with the official ATI drivers. That, and the fact I'm running a x86_64 machine may complicate matters even more.

I've got an ATI X515 chip and running 64bit and one of the older drivers is still working. I haven't upgraded because it works. The one I got to work is 8.27.xx. Not sure if it's available anymore, but you might find it somewhere on their site.

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I installed the ATI drivers that were released last week and I actually got a segfault and crashed X11. I couldn't even get back to a console and had to hard boot it.

Yep, I know that. If I switch terminals and then back to X, the display locks. No way that I've found to get out of it short of a reboot. I can ssh in and reboot so at least I don't have to hit the reset switch.

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If they would work, that would be great... but I've tried everything I know (which probably isn't everything possible, but I'm not a complete novice either).

I have a feeling it's not really the graphics card, but something with the MB chipset. I've got a 32bit system that absolutely wouldn't run any of the drivers. I finally switched it to a cheap nVidia card and that worked fine.

Mike

I know this thread is basically solved (closed case), but I would like to say I conquered my ATI bug also. I've had trouble running the ATI drivers, as they have segfaulted on me in the past. I went back into Yast and installed all the 32-bit x11 related packages (there were a bunch of small ones) and the driver installed and worked fine. I guess that was the real catch. ... thought that might help someone else. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

John Andersen

22 Apr 22 Apr

16:04

New subject: Will the Build Service Build Them? was Re: [opensuse] New ATI Drivers today

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster

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I installed the ATI drivers that were released last week and I actually got a segfault and crashed X11. I couldn't even get back to a console and had to hard boot it.

If they would work, that would be great... but I've tried everything I know (which probably isn't everything possible, but I'm not a complete novice either).

On the other hand I installed all of these versions from the ATI site and it worked every time. I always drop to init 3 then run the ATI binary to create a package, and then install that package. They have a graphics mode installer, but my way can actually be scripted and its easier. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

David C. Rankin

23 Apr 23 Apr

06:52

New subject: Will the Build Service Build Them? was Re: [opensuse] New ATI Drivers today

John Andersen wrote:

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On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:34 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:

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John Andersen wrote:

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http://ati.amd.com/online/rss/atilinuxdriver.rss?OCT-rss

New ATI drivers were posted today. I have not tried these yet, and since the 8.3 is working flawlessly, I'm not in any hurry, but those of you having problems with some ATI cards may want to check it out.

Great news,

The 8.3 drivers are fantastic. I'm still using the ones I built from the installer package. I just check and the build service now has the 8.3 drivers built, but it seemed like it took a very long time for them to show up. The 8.3 driver was released on 3/8 if I recall correctly, and I remember checking the build service for weeks without anything new. Maybe the 8.4 driver will show up here fairly quickly.

Why not get them direct from ATI? Their installer has always worked for me.

Already did. I have 2 boxes running 8.4 as we speak without any problems. As soon as Tyan gets my RMA'ed board back, I'll give them a try on x86-64. A few more holes to fill in, but I almost have an auto-installer built for the ATI drivers that will download the installer, build the rpm remove the old drivers, save your xorg.conf, prep the kernel sources for the module build and install the new drivers for you. To fully automate it, I just have to figure out a way to get the script to continue to run through the telinit 3. More as time permits... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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