BandiPat wrote:
On Monday 22 October 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
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
Ok, yes, that could very well be your problem Bryen! Mismatched kernel
modules, so obviously it's not finding what it needs to finish
installing and setting up. You could possibly revert back to the
required kernel or just quit at this point and use the xorg drivers,
which should do well enough.
Yes, rpm -e those installed files. I would probably remove the present
xorg.conf file or at least rename it, so sax2 will build a fresh
untouched configuration file. Boot into init 3 only, then run your
sax2 again.
bye,
Lee
I'm not an expert on this, but I THINK the problem could be that you
installed the wrong driver for your card. The one click install seems a
bit misleading to me, it downloads the newest driver from ATI. But
looking at the online compatibility page, the last driver listed showing
the 9200 is version 8.28.8. I think you will need to install this driver
package the "hard way" as listed at http://en.opensuse.org/ati, not one
click.
That's my understanding anyway. Maybe others on the list could clarify.
Jim F
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