I can’t run some of my applications do to an error saying that I don’t have a 3D graphics card.
Is there any sugjestions on how to get the driver for my graphics card…
SAPPHIRE 100262L Radeon HD 2400PRO 512MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready Video Card.
SAPPHIRE HD 2400 PRO 512MB site:Sapphire Technology - Google Search
SAPPHIRE HD 2400PRO PCI-E
I was able to find lots of Windows drivers but I couldn’t find any lunux drivers.
Open yast>sofware>repositories and add the ati repo.
Install the ati driver from the repo, run sax2 from a console login as root and configure the card and all should work.
Please see the ATI - openSUSE page and follow the instruction.
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I went to the site and downloaded the driver…
I allowed it to install itself and know my computer will not boot… not even in failsafe!
it starts to boot but then it goes to a blank screen.
:(Is there any way to fix it?:\
You may need to edit grub boot line. When grub menu appears hit ESC. This will give you text mode grub menu. From there, choose failsafe, then ‘e’ for edit. You will need to remove the ‘vga=0x…’ parameter. Once done, hit enter to boot. Hopefully you will end up at a console login screen.
Now you can run sax2 to reconfigure your graphics. (You will need to be root user to do this).
You could try
sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx (zero=)
If that fails, you my need to configure with basic vesa driver to get access to your desktop. To do this:
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
This will get you up and running again.
I might have been a bit hazy re grub editing. Review this how to first.
Take care when adjusting the failsafe entry. All you want to remove is the ‘vga=…’ parameter. Use arrow keys to navigate. ESC to move back out to menu level.
I was able to figure out the grub menu by reading everything that it says…
I tried
sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
And
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
However, nether of them worked.
So thinking that there might have been a type error in sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx I tried sax2 -r -m 0=igfx(this is what the bios calls the port that the graphics card is in), but that didn’t work ether.
Is there anything else that I can try?
I had the same problem as you wealo after installing the ATI drivers for my card. Login in via the console login, you can add init 3 in the boot up options to do this, then as root type: aticonfig --initial, then reboot (shutdown -r now) that worked for me anyway, afterwards I did the sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx.
I did run ATICONFIG --initial and it descoverd the device… I rebooted the matchine ran sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx and it still just boots to a blank screen.