I installed ATI 10.7 driver successfully but its not up to my expectations, e.g VLC not working right (video stutters, etc). And I want to revert back to the default radeon which was a lot better until the ATI 10.8 driver comes out.
By the way, what is this in my /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install?
[Message] Kernel Module : Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
[Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched.
[Message] Kernel Module : Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
AMD kernel module generator version 2.1
Error:
kernel includes at /lib/modules/2.6.34-12-desktop/build/include do not match current kernel.
they are versioned as “”
instead of “2.6.34-12-desktop”.
you might need to adjust your symlinks:
Just in case you have not resolved this issue yet:
I remember having a similar problem a few years ago. At that time, and I honestly do not know if this information is correct for current propietary ATI, the ATI proprietary driver overwrote the systems open-gl implementation with it’s own. I had to manually (e.g. rm -r /ati’s/rogue/open/gl ) and then reinstall the relevent rpms.
Update : I ran the command sh ./fglrx-uninstall.sh which is in /usr/share/ati and removed ATI 10.7 driver.
Don’t know about the open-gl but I did a check on all the openGL screensavers and on ‘radeon’ driver they (openGL screensavers) are not working whereelse in ATI 10.7 driver, they work.
However, I still think the default ‘radeon’ works better for me than the proprietary.
Don’t know about the open-gl but I did a check on all the openGL screensavers and on ‘radeon’ driver they (openGL screensavers) are not working whereelse in ATI 10.7 driver, they work.
Its, been a while since I installed/uninstalled the fglrx driver and associated libraries. IIRC, the RPMs remove cleanly, but the tarballs (and uninstall script) may not. It may be worth reinstalling the Xorg packages via YaST, just to see if this improves/repairs the openGL library stuff.
Out of interest, what ATI chipset do you have?
/sbin/lspci -nnk
/usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard
That may determine what 3D accel results you should expect.
I can’t get the open radeon drivers back again after removing the fglrx using the fglrx-uninstall.sh script. After login a white screen appears and then a black screen remains. I also have removed the xorg.conf file.
Is there anything else I need to load radeonhd? How can I be sure about what modules are or aren’t running?
Ahhhh next time I will try to think twice before asking for help.
The solution was to run mkinitrd. So in this way openSUSE will start with installed video drivers (radeon).
I have an ‘ATI RADEON HD 4670’ and tried to install the proprietary drivers, with marginal success. X started and worked … if by working taking seconds to scroll 3 lines or move a window an inch counts as working. (SUSE 11.3 btw)
Now that I’ve uninstalled fglrx driver and am back on radeon, things move along quite well. I’ll call it happy and skip trying compiz for now.
Just resurrecting this one as I had the same issue even now in space year 2016 with unbelievably crappy ATI drivers. Killed KDE completely and on Gnome made it near-unusable with windows randomly blacking out.
So there is an uninstall script in /usr/share/ati, but try running that and it can’t because some links and files aren’t where it’s expecting. But checking the uninstall log, it says you can run /usr/share/ati/amd-uninstall.sh --force. This works! Goodbye Crimson drivers. Too bad, I was looking forward to some gaming.
(SUSE 11.3 btw)