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.
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