ATI Driver install Howto

Thanks for trying, but I've got the same result. That is, after rebooting, the system starts, KDE starts, but the X11 system crashes as soon as I try to touch the mouse or keyboard, as I told you. So it's impossible to get to any desktop. Under command line I'm told beeing under mesa driver...

You ask me to read the howto carefully : since I've spent already a bunch of hours trying to work the problem out, I've read every word I could in the howto but I'd just rather try everything, knowing about computers randomness sometimes and beeing myself quite a newbie though curious...

I even tried to install the fglrx and km-fglrx packages of the Suse 9.3 (in case...), and followed the instructions (sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx -b /usr/share/sax/profile/FireGL -i). It seemed to be working and the sax windows indicated that 3D was on. But the ATI control panel (which worked) still indicated mesa driver and more suprising an unknown chipset. And my glxgears score hasn't changed (around 800 Fps) and if I try any 3D app, I'm told that there is no 3D activated.

I really think I just have the very graphic card that is not supported... I just found a list of supported chipsets, where I could find X600, X700 and X700XT, X800 and X800XT and so on, but the X600XT is not mentioned. That would be bad luck but unless you have more good ideas, I'll just try to survive without 3D!

Try looking at the suse amd-64 mailing list here: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/

You can search it (or any mailing list) with: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?w=2
just go down to linux distributions & click on suse amd-64; then enter your video card, pci-express, etc.

You can join the list & ask a real guru.

Ask ATI tech support.

Ask Asus tech support.

Sorry I could not be of more help -- basically just know what works for me!

Thanks a lot anyway. I'll try to reach the ATI support.

Does Asus have a forum? I'd look there 1st.

Might also go here & search:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/index.php?s=

I have a similar problem. However I've found a good tutorial at http://linux.wordpress.com/2005/10/11/suse...s-installation/.
ciao Alessandro

On the topic of ATI drivers for non-64bit systems, I just did a fresh install of SUSE 10.0 (following my guide...with a few tweaks I will address in that thread). I downloaded and ran (after doing a chmod u+x ati-driver-installer-8.20.8-i386.run) the installer from the ATI drivers page. It ran just fine and installed the drivers perfectly. No problems so far.