BandiPat wrote:
This has been mentioned several times already on this list, you might want to search the mail archives for many of your answers. Had you actually read the instructions included with the ATI drivers, you might find that you could no longer use the conventional means of setting resolutions, 3d, etc for your card. Furthermore, in trying to do so, you lose those things the driver tried to do after installing.
.... I actually read the ATI installation stuff. Yes I know that you need to use |*fglrxconfig *|to set it up and I did manage to wade through it.. But the ATI installation info doesn't say you can't use yast. Searching through the email data month by month is not the easiest way to go. Does SUSE have a email search function? I couldn't figure it out. Some people are new to this.
The 9600 is supported natively by SuSE 9.0, so there is no real need to use the ATI drivers as the kernel module is already present for 3d and using the card.
I guess that is why the card was detected at install and immediately did a black screen. So I don't know what supported means. After re-boot with the big red switch, at least something came up on the screen. But the keyboard and other settings were not done correctly. Probably because of the crash. After fiddling, the screen stayed up, but the 3d did not work after the initial install. So if this is supported I don't know what not supported means.
Sax2 will configure everything for you. YaST2 is good and getting better, but using sax2 is the better choice.
You might try removing the ATI rpm and dropping down to init 3 to use sax2, but it's a good possibility you have things wanky trying to mix the two. Nice thing about Linux is that it can be fixed.
Don't have a clue what you are talking about here. How do I remove the new ATI driver? SUSE just said get the latest driver from ATI and hasn't returned my inquiry what to do next. BTW windowsXP loves the same card on the same machine and it preforms flawlessly. But then again maybe just taking the whole pile back to BB would be better. tb