I have OPENSUSE 11.3 and I tried to install the ATI drivers from the wiki with the one click install. Now I can’t boot. I have an ATI HD 4850 and a 64bit system. When I go unto the failsafe, it just stops at (drm) Initialized radeon 1.33.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
Also, when the gui comes up, my screens picture keeps scrolling up.
I don’t know which ATI driver you installed (never read the wiki 
) but obviously the first thing you have to do is to boot in runlevel 3 (without X) and try to fix the problem from there. So, before you boot the normal entry (not failsafe!), just add a “3” at the end of the line and press enter. Over the last months … the last years … we posted a lot of articles described different methods to install the ATI driver. Also I noticed in your post that you mentionned ‘radeon’. It is one of the open source drivers installed by default. The one you want - if you did installed the proprietary dirver - is called ‘fglrx’ and has to be compiled from sources after each kernel update. Fortunately the sources are installed with the driver and, provided you have the required packages installed - kernel sources, kernel headers, gcc compiler - compiling the module is rather simple. I also posted a script in form of a service which does that automatically (automatically recompile kernel modules after kernel update). But for now, boot in runlevel 3 and have a look at step 3 of this post (among others) : ATI driver + kernel update: before you reboot and before you complain… (or in reverse order if you have only one computer). You can either execute the commands one by one or execute the whole script. It should bring you a few steps ahead.
Can you boot to the command line?
— if the driver did not install correctly run the uninstall script in /usr/share/ati/
— this should put you back to your previous graphics configuration
Can you tell me the name of this file, so I could include this method of deinstallation in the atiupgrade script? I know this option is still missing. I guess you only have this file if you installed the ATI driver directly without creating a package first. As I always created a rpm package prior to install the fglrx driver, I don’t have it. But I’ve seen the name in a post already, I just forgot it.
Since updating the kernel to Linux 2.6.34.7-0.4-desktop x86_64 the install from the ati .run file has not worked, so I updated from the ATI repository, hence I also do not have the file on my systems any more.
But from old successful .run installs the file was /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
I hope this helps.
Why not? I’m sure it works. And If you had the driver installed already, all you had to do would have been to recompile the fglrx module. I wrote a small service to automate that task (among others): automatically recompile kernel modules after kernel update
The driver from the repo is fine if you do not require a newer version. It depends pretty much on your graphic card.
Yes it will. Thank you. I wrote it down.
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Thanks for the info.
Glad if it helped.
We should stop this discussion here as it is not helping |KingJohn| with his problem / thread.