I’ve run into a problem with the ATI proprietary driver. It seems I’m not alone, because other people are saying the same thing. I installed it and now I get a message that kwin is unstable. It kept crashing and eventually I just hit cancel. In the long thread about proprietary ATI drivers someone else had the same message. But I’m not sure what he did to fix his problem. I can’t type using the keyboard in my browser. I can in other programs though which is weird. I’m currently using a live cd to write this.
I don’t know a lot about Linux. Pretty much nothing.
Is there any way I can remove the driver? Or at least tell it to go back to whatever it was doing before?
I have a sapphire card, I believe a 3850 hd. I’m trying Suse 11.2
Heres a report of some one getting there HD card working. I don’t know if I would blindly follow all that they say in this post but at least it seems easy enough.
Don’t try to build rpm, doesn’t work.
Install with installer with automatic option, no custom.
zypper in kernel-source linux-kernel-headers kernel-syms module-init-tools make gcc
i hope someone resolves the problem building ATI’s 9.10 driver rpm in 11.2, it’s certainly been discussed in the Prerelease/Beta forum previously so it’s not a surprise.
apparently the ATI script install is the only option at this time.
food for thought, a 9.10 rpm i built the hard way for 11.1 installs without incidence in 11.2, and works very well (3850HD) which surprised me.
ATI Released 9.11 last night 17/11/2009. Will give it a bash on 11.2
These are hand typed extracts (by yours truly) from the latest posting of AMD’s Proprietary Linux driver. Any typographical or other mistakes in retyping are mine. This particular driver updates the software version to 8.671. It is also known as revision 9.11.
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This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating system:
• RHEL 5.4 support
• openSUSE 11.2 early look support
Resolved Issues
The following section provides a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Catalyst Linux software suite. These include:
• [Ubuntu 9.04] Animated busy mouse cursor no longer disappears or flickers in Clone mode
• Corruption no longer occurs after hot plugging a display and doing a Virtual Terminal switch
• With CrossFire enabled, system no longer becomes unresponsive when switching to DC (battery) mode with full-screen applications running
• [SUSE 11.1] Unplugging the secondary display and terminating the X server (Ctrl + Alt + Backspace) does not cause the primary display to become blank and display corruption
• Playing full screen Flash video on a secondary display no longer causes screen corruption
• Screen corruption no longer occurs when open GL screen saver is enabled with Desktop effects
Known Issues
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI Catalyst Linux software suite. These issues include:
• Segmentation fault may occur or system may display error during boot up if X is stopped in Dual-Head mode
• System may be unresponsive after executing specific combination of Xrandr reflections and rotations
• X server may fail to start GUI Desktop Manager after enabling secondary adapter using Catalyst Control Center
• Desktop resolution changes through Catalyst Control Center might not be applied after restarting X
• [Ubuntu 9.04] Some video cards may stop video output signal when monitor has been powered off.
Note: On Novell’s openSUSE, SLED, and SLES operating systems running “sax2” or “sax2 –r” on the console overwrites the X.Org configuration file xorg.conf, reverting changes made by running “aticonfig –initial” . As a result subsequent X session may start up using the open source Radeon on X-Vesa graphic drivers instead of the proprietary ATI Linux Graphics Driver.
Solution: Do not use Sax2 when the proprietary Linux Graphics Driver is installed. Instead configure all display parameters using the Catalyst Control Center – Linux Editon or the aticonfig command line interface.
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