ATI driver doesn't work on Opensuse 11.3 x86_64

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Hi there,

I’ve got a ATI graphic card, which is not a Radeon bla bla, and it is a Fire Pro MV 2260. I download the official driver from ATI(AMD) website, and it gives me:

‘firepro_8.723-linux_98794.zip’
and unzip will produce ‘fglrx-8.723’

I change the things according to this thread:

openSUSE Lizards » ATI HD57xxx fglrx drivers under 11.3

However, after installation I can’t start X. The log shows the kernal doesn’t match.

Then I try to install the ATI Catalyst 10.7. It won’t start X as well. I am a newbie of Linux. I think maybe ATI Catalyst 10.7 is particular designed for Radeon, isn’t it?

Anyway, anyone use a FirePro MV please share your experience or your suggestion. Thanks a lot.rotfl!

BTW, why there is no entry for 11.3 at:

Additional package repositories - openSUSE

NVIDIA drivers is updated, but ATI seems very lazy…

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I looks and appears they only got drivers for Windows OS. Not for Linux. If you were trying to install windows drivers on linux won’t work. If you using Radeon drivers for your card it won’t work.

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Have you add the “nomodeset” to your booting option with the readon driver??

If you don’t do it, it will probably solve your problem with X not starting.

Elseway, ATI have a linux driver however the support for linux from ati is pretty limited

the reason why there’s no entry on the additional support page, it’s probably that ATI hasn’t build the driver for Opensuse 11.3 as of now, so unfortunatly until this moment you can try installing the driver from ATI website (building kernel modules) or just go with the “nouveau” driver

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Have you tried;

zypper in http://linux.ioda.net/mirror/opensuse/ati-113/fglrx64_7_5_0_SUSE113-8.753-1.x86_64.rpm

What’s the output of uname -a and rpm -qa kernel*

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Thanks for your reply. I download the Linux driver, not win version. I am sure it is for linux.

Also I believe you are right. The Radeon drivers won’t work for my Fire Pro card. Thanks.

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Good idea. I will try to add nomodeset at first.

It is a shame that ATI hasn’t build the driver regularly.

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Thanks. I will try and post the output later.

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Hey ggyyree!
How did you install your drivers? With ready rpm or from the script?

Even if you downloaded rpm you still need kernel source, headers and gcc to be installed because kernel module is built on-fly while installing rpm.

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Hi there,

I tried several methods of install the ATI drivers. I mean the procedure is not complicate, but ATI gives quite limited support. I’ve got another machine with Opensuse11.2 and Nvidia card, and the driver setup is really trivial.

Anyway, finally, I got it installed using

zypper in http://linux.ioda.net/mirror/opensuse/ati-113/fglrx64_7_5_0_SUSE113-8.753-1.x86_64.rpm

Any more details you can find at:

openSUSE Lizards » ATI HD57xxx fglrx drivers under 11.3

Thanks a lot for all your guys help and advice!!!

BTW, I feel after the driver been installed, the system become slow, e.g., when I open a terminal, and try to drag it between my two monitors, it seems the window of the terminal is drawing and the drag is not that smooth. Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot.

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Hi there,

Another problem, when I try to turn on the ‘Desktop Effects’, it says ‘Deskktop effects are not supported on your current hardware / configuration…’

How to fix this? Cheers!

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I have the same problem, I cant turn on desktop effects.

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Try to disable “Functionality checks” on Advanced tab.

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it works, thanks