Ati Firegl Mobility V5250 On Lenovo T60p

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting the ati graphics drivers to work on the new opensuse 10.3 beta 2 release. I found the latest ati offerings out there - ati version 8.40.4

ati-driver-installer-8.40.4-x86.x86_64.run

I used it to generate an RPM for suse distros. This resulted in an rpm entitled

fglrx_7_1_0_SUSE102-8.40.4-1.i386.rpm

After installing this rpm (seemed to work), the instructions on the screen indicated that I should

1. login as root
2. switch to runlevel 3
3. run sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx

and all should be well. sax2 tells me that there are no screens with the correct configuration available. I don't know what the "correct configuration" is. In fact, I don't know what this error message means, but I suspect that this driver, as new as it is, is still not new enough for 10.3 beta 2.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
John

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting the ati graphics drivers to work on the new opensuse 10.3 beta 2 release. I found the latest ati offerings out there - ati version 8.40.4

ati-driver-installer-8.40.4-x86.x86_64.run

I used it to generate an RPM for suse distros. This resulted in an rpm entitled

fglrx_7_1_0_SUSE102-8.40.4-1.i386.rpm

After installing this rpm (seemed to work), the instructions on the screen indicated that I should

1. login as root
2. switch to runlevel 3
3. run sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx

and all should be well. sax2 tells me that there are no screens with the correct configuration available. I don't know what the "correct configuration" is. In fact, I don't know what this error message means, but I suspect that this driver, as new as it is, is still not new enough for 10.3 beta 2.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
John
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Firstly i hope you're just using 10.3 beta 2 for testing. Otherwise get 10.2.

As for the driver you could try downloading the driver here you can read more here

/Geoff

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting the ati graphics drivers to work on the new opensuse 10.3 beta 2 release. I found the latest ati offerings out there - ati version 8.40.4

ati-driver-installer-8.40.4-x86.x86_64.run

I used it to generate an RPM for suse distros. This resulted in an rpm entitled

fglrx_7_1_0_SUSE102-8.40.4-1.i386.rpm

After installing this rpm (seemed to work), the instructions on the screen indicated that I should

1. login as root
2. switch to runlevel 3
3. run sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx

and all should be well. sax2 tells me that there are no screens with the correct configuration available. I don't know what the "correct configuration" is. In fact, I don't know what this error message means, but I suspect that this driver, as new as it is, is still not new enough for 10.3 beta 2.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
John
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Hmmm...well you got further than I have. Just installed beta 3, and the rpm complains that it wants libstdc++.5.so (beta 3 seems to have libstdc++.6). Tried compiling the module from scratch and suse seems to be missing files from the kernel-source, it says it can't find version.h. So right now I am stuck with the vesa driver.

Hmmm...well you got further than I have. Just installed beta 3, and the rpm complains that it wants libstdc++.5.so (beta 3 seems to have libstdc++.6). Tried compiling the module from scratch and suse seems to be missing files from the kernel-source, it says it can't find version.h. So right now I am stuck with the vesa driver.
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I take back my earlier post. I reinstalled from the DVD of beta 3 last night (I used the gnome cd before) and everything went without a hitch. Downloaded the newest ATI driver, built the module (didn't make an RPM) and ran aticonfig --initial and everything came up great, even got compiz working.