[YLUG] Ati drivers and Suse 10.1

[fis100 at york.ac.uk]

I do remember trying that, but didnt really get me anhywher, I will give it 
another go using sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx -b 
/usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/sax2-profile

Perhaps taht might help...

Will let you know whether it worked or not.

Fahad

On Aug 10 2006, Grant Hill wrote:

> > Here is what I try to do when installing:
> > 
> > 1. Generate rpm for suse 10.1 2. install rpm with -ihv (also tried 
> > -uhv) 3. add /usr/lib/fglrx in ld.so.conf and then do ldconfig 4. add 
> > /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 in /etc/fstab 5. configure using 
> > aticonfig -–initial –-input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf 6. check the 
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make sure that there is Load drm, dri and Section 
> > Video and that the driver being used is fglrx 7. Also tried another 
> > variant using sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
> 
> 
> I was lucky enough that my card just worked on SuSE 10.1 when I
> generated the rpm, installed it, switched to init 3, ran sax2 -r -m
> 0=fglrx
> 
> sax2 did all the updating of the xorg etc for me so there was no need
> for all the extra steps you've taken in my case.
> 
> For reference, there's a HOWTO:
> 
> http://en.opensuse.org/ATI_Driver_HOWTO
> 
> and maybe some of the links in there may be able to help you.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> 
> Grant
> 
> 
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