I'm trying to to update my ATI display drivers for a Radeon 9800 to enable 3D on a SuSE Linux 9.0 Personal installation , following the instructions outlined here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ATI/suse90/fglrx/3.7.0/README Unfortunately I can't get the kernel-source to install. I tried several different routes to no avail (Kernel source option is grayed out in Online update in YaST, downloading and installing with rpm looks succesful but doesn't copy any files into /usr/src/linux, YaST installation of the rpm package starts but immediately returns without any message). What am I doing wrong? Is there an option somewhere in the Personal edition prohibiting the installation of source files? Any help appreciated. The rpm module I'm trying to install is kernel-source-2.4.21-144.src.rpm TIA
--- roger
I'm trying to to update my ATI display drivers for a Radeon 9800 to enable 3D on a SuSE Linux 9.0 Personal installation , following the instructions outlined here:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ATI/suse90/fglrx/3.7.0/README
Unfortunately I can't get the kernel-source to install. I tried several different routes to no avail (Kernel source option is grayed out in Online update in YaST, downloading and installing with rpm looks succesful but doesn't copy any files into /usr/src/linux, YaST installation of the rpm package starts but immediately returns without any message). What am I doing wrong? Is there an option somewhere in the Personal edition prohibiting the installation of source files? Any help appreciated. The rpm module I'm trying to install is kernel-source-2.4.21-144.src.rpm
TIA
Hi, You need to download the kernel-source-2.4.21-144.i586.rpm file, not the src file. However, I believe you can use rpmbuild to build an rpm out of the src file to make the i586 rpm. Once the i586 rpm is built, then you can use rpm -i for the i586 rpm to install the kernel source. I had that same problem myself a few weeks ago, and I hope that helps! Take care, Russ G. ===== Russ Goddard -- rlgoddard@yahoo.com My personal homepage -- http://www.geocities.com/rlgoddard
On Thursday 01 January 2004 09:32 pm, roger wrote:
I'm trying to to update my ATI display drivers for a Radeon 9800 to enable 3D on a SuSE Linux 9.0 Personal installation , following the instructions outlined here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ATI/suse90/f glrx/3.7.0/README Unfortunately I can't get the kernel-source to install. I tried several different routes to no avail (Kernel source option is grayed out in Online update in YaST, downloading and installing with rpm looks succesful but doesn't copy any files into /usr/src/linux, YaST installation of the rpm package starts but immediately returns without any message). What am I doing wrong? Is there an option somewhere in the Personal edition prohibiting the installation of source files? Any help appreciated. The rpm module I'm trying to install is kernel-source-2.4.21-144.src.rpm
TIA ===============
Roger, I think if you check your kernel modules, you'll find the ATI fglrx module there! It has been included for a while now and you shouldn't have to build one manually. Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
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