[Gloucs] ATI Radeon 9600 on SuSE 9.2 was Re: gloucs Digest,

[David Corking]

Hi Tom!

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Tom Faraday wrote:

> Ow and after looking around I found this with relation 
> to the graphics card
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/286990
> 
> I attempted to follow the instructions on the suse ftp 
> link, to compile the new graphics card kernel module 
> (perhaps a bit ambitious for a 1 day old newbie) and 
> everything was good until I had to go into init3 and 
> update sax (point 4 or 5 on the README i think). I then 
> got and error telling me that the profile file in the 
> new driver folder was corrupt and their was an error at 
> line 970 (or some line like that, im at a different pc 
> now, if it is important ill dig it out of the logs)?
> 
> The only thing I missed on the instruction was to 
> update the kernel source package through the online 
> update as this was a 70mb file and would take ages over 
> a 26kbps connection.

Great troubleshooting log!  Unfortunately it sounds like this could be
the problem.  I don't run that version of SuSE (or have that graphics
card) but the specific error message will probably only be useful to
an expert in that particular graphics driver.

With modern Linux, in general when you compile modules, the kernel
source rpm should match your running kernel rpm.  Since you have
updated the kernel rpm (for recent security fixes) I think you need
the kernel sources.

So a couple of choices :-

1) You might need to find a neighbour, library or internet cafe with
   broadband, who will let you download and burn the kernel-source rpm
   to a CD to take home.
 
2) There is a new type of RPM called a delta rpm - you will find them
   on SuSE ftp sites such as here
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.2/deltas/

   You will need to read up on how to use them (as I haven't used one
   yet) - but each kernel-source***.delta.rpm is only a couple of
   megabytes so should take you around 15 minutes each.  Install the
   kernel-source from your CD/DVD first, then try to update it with
   delta.rpms.

> Can i just try the whole thing over? As i have already 
> ran the two rpm's it tells me to download.

Yes you can do it all again.  Skip step 1 in the README (running rpm
again) if you want to save 10 seconds.

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ATI/suse92/i386/fglrx/8.8.25/README

-- 
David Corking