Joachim Schrod wrote:
> Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
>> Joachim Schrod wrote:
>>> Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
>>>> Joachim Schrod wrote:
>>>>> Rajko M. wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This maybe nothing new, but it is for sure openSUSE/SUSE Linux
>>>>>> specific.
>>>>>> http://en.opensuse.org/ATI
>>>>>> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17340.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, I haven't seem them before. Especially the information that
>>>>> ATI's driver doesn't survive a kernel update and needs to be
>>>>> reinstalled is very helpful.
>>>>
>>>> I have an eMachine Intel dual core with ATI graphics card, Xpress
>>>> something. Anyway, the darned thing would never work with 10.0 or 10.1
>>>> but 10.2 has always installed and worked perfectly [ and this makes
>>>> about my fourth install on this machine for various reasons - Mostly
>>>> ID-10-T errors ]. I even updated the kernel a couple times to the
>>>> 2.6.20* [ when I could find it on the factory site] from the 2.6.18*
>>>> kernel. The ATI drivers worked just fine through the upgrade.
>>>
>>> Interesting. How did you install ATI's driver?
>>>
>>> With YAST, using the repository that ATI provides (as per instructions
>>> at http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/ati-installer-HOWTO.html), or by
>>> downloading and calling ati-driver-install (as per instructions on the
>>> OpenSUSE Wiki and the CoolSolutions article, referenced above)?
>>>
>>> Joachim
>>>
>> I didn't have to. The ATI drivers were automatically installed during
>> the hardware setup process of the install.
>
> Are you sure that you use ATI's proprietary fglrx graphics driver?
> It's not part of SUSE 10.2, AFAICS. (The specific graphics card that
> I'm looking for, FireGL V52xx, is not supported by the R300 (Radeon)
> Open Source driver; at least that's what all information pages tell me.)
>
> Joachim
>
If I remember right my graphics card is a Radeon 200 Xpress. I'm not
sure what SuSE uses for the driver. It may very well be the opensource
driver.
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