I want to install the proprietary Radeon Catalyst video driver BUT I want to be able to roll it back if needed (in case it doesn’t work). Can anyone give me a step-by-step tutorial (for openSUSE 12.1)?
Thanks!
My setup:
CPU: AMD A4-3400 APU with Radeon™ HD Graphics, 2,700.00 MHz
RAM: 3.6 GiB
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1.2-desktop x86_64
OS: openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64)
Desktop: KDE 4.7.2 (4.7.2) “release 5”
GPU: Integrated AMD Radeon HD 6410D
2D driver: fbdev
3D driver: swrast (No 3D Acceleration) (7.11)
On 02/01/12 10:26, 6tr6tr wrote:
>
> I want to install the proprietary Radeon Catalyst video driver BUT I
> want to be able to roll it back if needed (in case it doesn’t work). Can
> anyone give me a step-by-step tutorial (for openSUSE 12.1)?
> Thanks!
>
> MY SETUP:
> CPU: AMD A4-3400 APU with Radeon™ HD Graphics, 2,700.00 MHz
> RAM: 3.6 GiB
> Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1.2-desktop x86_64
> OS: openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64)
> Desktop: KDE 4.7.2 (4.7.2) “release 5”
> GPU: Integrated AMD Radeon HD 6410D
> 2D driver: fbdev
> 3D driver: swrast (No 3D Acceleration) (7.11)
>
>
I would consider using “atiupgrade”, which makes the whole driver
installation (and necessary ancillary files) painless (including
removing!). I have PTAs repo setup in YAST to keep it up-to-date.
Just as a side note:
If this onboard graphics turns out to be a load of crud. Would you consider putting in a proper graphics card? nVidia. You can buy reasonable ones cheap and IIRC you do have a PCI-ex16 slot
I stupidly just installed it anyways (I figured since I haven’t put anything real on this computer yet, I can always reinstall opensuse) and I’m getting the same issue I was when I had Ubuntu installed/running and added the catalyst driver: it shows the screen as smaller than the monitor (there’s a big black area all around the screen). So it’s not working (although sound finally works via HDMI) but I’m not sure it’s the catalyst that’s not working since when I look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, the driver listed is “fglrx” not “radeonhd”. I wonder why this is. I wonder if it’s because of my car being an integrated one? When I go to kickoff and choose “System Information,” it lists the Graphics info as:
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
Model:
2D driver: fglrx
3D driver: ATI
Notice there’s nothing listed for “Model.” How would I fix this?
Yes. I know it was dumb but I wanted to try and figured I could always reinstall openSUSE if needed. (And it is not working properly, but I can see a screen - albeit the wrong size screen, but I can at least use it. And HDMI sound now works)
Searches on the internet suggest the AMD 6410D is supported by the proprietary AMD graphic driver, but as is typically the case for AMD, their GNU/Linux status is not up to date.
If please_try_again is not able to update the script due to the poor state of AMD documentation, then you may need to use a different method to install the driver.
I’m OK with that. What way would I install the driver?
(Although I think the problem is that my graphics card is not properly identifying itself. I say this because in “System Info” the “model” is blank, and also when I used Ubuntu on this computer, I had the same issue with the catalyst driver for Ubuntu)
Wait! You did install the driver already. You can install the driver even if atiupgrade gives you a warning and that’s what you did. It was right.
Please do NOT reinstall the driver! It could only get worse.
I ran Catalyst Control Center and it is listing my GPU as “[VX2453 Series] AMD Radeon HD 6140D”. That may not mean anything, but I thought I’d mention it.
I solved the Black borders!! I went into Catalyst Control Center and for some reason, the scaling options were set to 10% (which made it have a black border around the screen and made the screen smaller than the monitor). I then set it to 0% scaling and it’s not the perfect size!
EDIT: However, desktop effects do NOT work. They did work with fbdev driver, but not with this radeon or fglrx driver.
If you know that your graphic card is supported, you can safely continue here. You can also run atiupgrade on a nvidia machine if all you want is to build the fglrx package and say no to zypper later when it asks for confirmation before installing it.