On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:29:00PM +0200, Sampsa Riikonen wrote:

Dear List,

I have had hard time trying to install the ATI Radeon 9250 graphics card on my openSuse 10.2. The drivers available in the repository, as described in ..

www.suse.de/~sndirsch/ati-installer-HOWTO.html#manual

.. didn't do the job, so I went to ATI's pages:

ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon-prer200.html

and installed the drivers from there. This did not work either, and I finally found out that there is a version incompatibility.

The x.org version that comes with suse 10.2 is 7.1.99.902 = 7.2.0 RC 2. On ATI's pages there are only drivers up to version 7.1.0 of x.org. This manifests itself also in the Sax.log: "detected x.org 7.2-1.902, required 7.1.0.0".

Surely, a driver for 7.1 should work for 7.2... (or maybe this is not so trivial) ? Is there any solution to this problem? Could I migrate from x.org 7.2 to x.org 7.1 ?

If you rely on using the fglrx driver for your current card, you need to go back to an older distribution, e.g. SUSE LINUX 10.1, which still uses X.Org 7.1 or older. I suggest to use the radeon driver instead, which includes 3D support via DRI as well. Or buy another graphics card. Best regards, Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xorg+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-xorg+help@opensuse.org