John Andersen wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Except that, as Anders points out, and I can confirm, this driver works just fine, as did the previous one. My hardware is the x1400 so its a tad different than yours.
In the past I have had problems with ATI drivers trying to do an in-place upgrade rather than a remove and re-install. Further, I've known ATI to put modules in strange places that were too far down the path, such that you end up with a mix of old and new modules running. (This stuff is really hard to find, but it has happened in OpenSuse since before it was OpenSuse. I first discovered this when I did a clean install and the ATI drivers worked perfectly out of the gate. Since I had two identical machines, I compared files and dates till I found the culpret.)
I don't know what to suggest, since you probably don't want to nuke and reinstall that machine, and 8-9 is working great for you. There is not much new in this release to chase after.
The bizarre part is that my card *is Listed* as being supported, right under yours. I have the x1300 which ain't a whole lot different than then x1400. ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1600 ATI Mobility Radeon™ 9550 ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1400 ATI Mobility Radeon™ 9500 ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1300 ATI Mobility Radeon™ Xpress 1100 Series ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1200 ATI Mobility Radeon™ Xpress 200 Series ( 9-3 release notes page 3) I do a complete proper removal and reinstall, so I don't think I'm screwing up there: (1) make sure the 'kernel-source' package is installed, if not, then install it (as root): zypper in kernel-source (2) Build the fglrx rpm from the install package. i586: sh ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE110-IA32 x86_64 sh ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE110-AMD64 SuSE/SUSE110-AMD64 (3) make a copy of your current xorg.conf so sax2 won't screw it up cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /tmp/xorg.conf ************************************************ ** if not in runlevel 3, go to runlevel 3 now ** ************************************************ (4) (as root for all remaining commands) init 3 (5) Removing old fglrx driver rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep fglrx) (6) Preparing the kernel source (not 100% necessary, but proper) cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper make cloneconfig > /dev/null 2>&1 make modules_prepare make clean (7) Install the new fglrx rpm you created, example: rpm -Uvh fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE110-8.532-1.x86_64.rpm (8) Initialize your xorg.conf for the new driver: aticonfig --initial (9) Add options to the end of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to enable compiz: Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "true" Option "DAMAGE" "true" EndSection (10) REBOOT, I can't think of a way to do the install that is any more complete or thorough than that. I mean I guess I could dump fglrx, run the radeon driver for a while, while doing several more rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep fglrx)s, but honestly, I can't see where it is going south on my end? Oh well, I have a spare drive for my laptop with 10.3 on it, I'll try the 9-3 driver on 10.3 and see if that makes a difference.... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org