> On Monday 22 October 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > I had thought I had an older graphics card in my system that >> > wouldn't support Desktop Effects. But I discovered with glee that >> > I indeed had a Radeon 9200 which is on the support list in the >> > wiki. >> > >> > So I proceeded to do the one-click install of the ATI proprietary >> > driver. But nothing changed. Sax2 still saw the old driver and >> > wouldn't let me change to the new driver. >> > >> > Going into Yast2 > Hardware > Hardware Information > Display, I see >> > that the new driver is listed as (secondary.) >> > >> > How do I make this driver primary? >> > >> > -- >> > ---Bryen--- >> >> Okay, maybe that wasn't the best thing to do. I rebooted my box and >> now I no longer have a graphical login and I get display errors when >> I run sax2. hwinfo still lists the new driver as a secondary. >> >> Thank goodness I discovered w3m the other day and can still get >> online to email you guys. :-) >> >> Should I just rpm -e the new ATI driver that was installed to revert >> back to the original state or do I need to do something else as well? >> I'd like to see if changing the driver to primary would fix things >> before I revert back to original state. >> >> Might as well make lemons when life gives you lemonade... (oh wait, >> did I botch that one up?) >> >> Help is greatly appreciated in this momentary minor crisis. >> >> Bryen > > =========== > Bryen, > Have you tried running sax2 to enable the fglrx module or even the > aticonfig program for the newly installed ati software? > > Try: sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx > > I know they have made several changes in the past few years and > different methods have been used to enable & load the ati driver > modules, but I think sax2 is capable now to do that for you. > Documentation is always good at this point also. ;-) > I ran that command per opensuse wiki documentation and nothing happened. Then on the off chance, I decided to reboot, and that's when I lost all graphical capabilities. :-(
Further investigation: As this was all done with one-click install, I just now looked at the exact rpm's that were installed: x11-video-fglrxG01-8.41.7-5.1 ati-fglrxG01-kmp-default-8.4.7_2.6.22.5_30-1.1 Looking at that last rpm, the end part of the name, I believe implies the kernel version. I have a newer kernel as pushed out by the security update, and it is 2.6.22.9-04. Perhaps this is the problem? Anyway, since I don't want to damage it further, is it at all possible to revert back to my original state by simply rpm -e-ing the above rpms? Thanks, Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
