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