atiupgrade - Problem with HD 6550D graphics

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I recently upgraded my Desktop to 12.2/KDE 4.9

Something has broken atiupgrade.
It worked well with openSUSE12.1, but I have not upgraded Catalyst since 12.3 so this issue may have been introduced with the recent changes to atiupgrade(due to changes by ATI in legacy coverage)

I successfully downloaded and installed “the hard way” amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.10, which builds an rpm for Catalyst 9.002, so flgrx is working fine.

amdcccle reports HD 6550D Graphics
From below, it appears that atiupgrade gets the same string.
Note that this is the integrated graphics in an AMD-APU.

atiupgrade is up to date.

zypper info atiupgrade
Retrieving repository 'Carl Downloads' metadata ......................................................................[done]
Loading repository data...                                                                                                  
Reading installed packages...                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                            
Information for package atiupgrade:                                                                                         
                                                                                                                            
Repository: PTA                                                                                                             
Name: atiupgrade                                                                                                            
Version: 5.2-3.1

Here is the failure messaging

PVE-LinuxSRV5:/home/carl # atiupgrade
 (1) - Analyzing system...
     * Found ATI graphics card: HD 6550D
/usr/bin/atiupgrade: line 356: : amddriver-installer-catalyst-12.10-x86.x86_64.zip: integer expression expected
/usr/bin/atiupgrade: line 370: : too many arguments
     * Found fglrx: 9.002
 (2) - Getting latest (or specified) Catalyst version: amd.driver-installer-catalyst-12-10-x86.x86_64.zipamd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.11-beta-x86.x86_64.zip/usr/bin/atiupgrade: line 397: amddriver-installer-catalyst-12-10-x86.x86_64.zip amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.11-beta-x86.x86_64.zip*1: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".x86_64.zip amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.11-beta-x86.x86_64.zip*1")

I am in no panic - fglrx is working fine.
atiupgrade has made me lazy; this was probably a good refresher on doing it “the hard way” ;)and a reminder to thank PTA again for making this so easy.

I do note that “sysinfo:/” (a.k.a. “My Computer” on desktop) reports this under Display info:

Display Info
Vendor:  ATI Technologies Inc
  Model:
  2D driver:  fglrx
  3D driver:  ATI

I don’t recall if the Model: displayed correctly here under openSUSE12.1 or not.

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Having seen other posts with related issues, I updated atiupgrade to the latest version

zypper info atiupgrade

Information for package atiupgrade:

Repository: PTA
Name: atiupgrade
Version: 5.3-2.1

All works again

Thanks, P_T_A

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AMD regularly changes the name of the installer … for the sole purpose of keeping me busy.