Can't install ATI Radeon HD 2600 driver on opensuse11.3 x86

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recently I have downloaded opensuse 11.3.tried to install latest version of graphic driver.but after uncompressing it says:

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ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager

which: no XFree86 in (/home/muhammad/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin)

Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.34-12-desktop:; make sure that the version is being
correctly set by --iscurrentdistro

Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.fvzKbN

What is the problem?
I have installed kernel sources,xorg x11 headers and gcc.

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Hi
I’m just a n00b (so better don’t trust me :slight_smile: ) but I got this message yesterday and was wondering how to fix it. I read Catalyst installation instructions today and saw that required SW is:

• XFree86-Mesa-libGL
• libstdc++
• libgcc
• XFree86-libs
• fontconfig
• freetype
• zlib
• gcc

Maybe installing XFree86 packages will fix it? I’m not at home right now so I’m not able to try it.

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ATI says use X.Org or Xfree86 instead.
By the way I couldn’t find xfree86 in opensuse repositories.

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can anybody help?
It is making me angry…

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Do you realy need the flgrx driver? I have a HD4670 and i use the open source radeon driver without problems.

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Where can I get that thing you say which can work for HD 2600 XT PCI-E ?
I have downloaded one of flgrx drivers, but is not compatible with my card.

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… can you please advise WHAT file you believe is the latest driver? Is this the ATI Catalyst™ Display Driver 10.7 or 10.6 that you tried with ?

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When I have downloaded it, it was 10.6 .(after releasing opensuse 10.3 it was). unfortunately the next day of that day I saw they released a new version of it.(10.7)
however this release I have is published after opensuse 10.3.

Should I download 10.7?

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Yes. Anything before 10.7 doesn’t officially support openSUSE 11.3 (and most probably wouldn’t work.)

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I have downloaded 10.7 and installed that. But when I wanna run amdcccle it shows this output:

Parse error on line 15 of section Screen in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
        Unexpected EOF. Missing EndSection keyword?
Parse error on line 15 of section Screen in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
        Unexpected EOF. Missing EndSection keyword?

Also desktop effects are disabled.
This is my xorg.conf :

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "LAYOUT0"
Screen 0 "SCREEN0"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "SCREEN0"
Device "DEVICE0"
Monitor "MONITOR0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
Virtual 2224 1024
EndSubSection
EndSection
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After running the 10.7 script you already ran the aticonfig script? If not switch to the console, and shut down the xserver as root:

init 3

Then run

aticonfig --initial

reboot your machine or just trie to restart the xserver with

init 5

At this state ATI drivers are still a bit tricky and in some cases buggy (black squares in some applications running the lates 2D drivers). Switching to the elder 2D drivers will fix that but makes rescaling windows really slow with compositing on. No matter what you do it will be a compromise at this moment.

cu
Gargi

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I have had reasonable success with the 10.7 ATI driver on my AMD64 box with a Radeon HD 2600 video card. Some details:

lspci -nnk
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD 2600 Series] [1002:9589]
        Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Device [174b:e410]
        Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci

uname -r
2.6.34-12-desktop

I get good performance:

glxgears

28421 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5684.098 FPS
30761 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6152.128 FPS
31150 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6229.965 FPS
31164 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6232.603 FPS
30713 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6142.419 FPS

I used the ATI proprietary driver, and just executed the .run file, accepting all defaults. It is vital, I found, to scrub the system of existing ATI drivers before installing the new one. Run /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh, and verify no other fglrx RPMs are installed

rpm -qa | grep -i fgl

Before installing the latest. Don’t forget the

aticonfig --initial

command.
The driver is not perfect. I am seeing segfaults connected with the flash module. Obviously some 32:64bit mismatch is responsible.

I notice that your Xinerama option is set to “on”; try setting it to “off”.

ATI documentation warns against running Sax2 to set up the video. Be sure to avoid this.

HTH