I’m a total noob with linux, and I’ve got an nx9420 laptop with SUSE 11.0 and a ATI Radeon X1600 Mobility GFX card.
I was playing around with it, and noticed that the GFX wasn’t working so good…so, after investigating I fount that the mesa default GFX drivers were installed, thereby slowing graphics to a crawl.
I downloaded the latest ATI drivers from here:
ATI Radeon/Mobility/FireGL Catalyst 8.7 Linux x86/x64
and installed.
I rebooted…checked the video version info…and voila! It said ATI technologies. The graphics worked just like they were supposed to!! woo hoo!! Time for some Duke Nukem 3d!!!
Unfortunately now, After about 3 - 5 minutes my laptop shuts down! Ack! I have had issues with my laptop trying to do graphics with the mesa drivers…and if I did something intensive I would get a shut down…so I avoided it like the plague…but I was hoping that the ATI drivers would solve both my slow performance AND my overheating problems.
Alas, no. The failure is more pronounced than ever.
I’ve been searching around trying to find a resolution to my problems and ACPI shows up a lot…and I have no clue if this is the source of my problem or not.
So, a few questions.
- Can I get the ATI graphics driver to work?
- How can I uninstall the ATI driver and get the mesa ones back so I can at least do something with my laptop…(I’m running in safe mode now).
- How can I adjust ACPI if this is the cause of my woes?
Please note the NOOB comment above…so I’m hoping for more than “change your acpi.conf file” Not trying to be mean…just a guy trying to give SUSE a fair shot…by wiping my drive clean and running SUSE 11 straight up…so, details would be appreciated.
I’m running SUSE 11 with gnome desktop…(impatiently waiting for KDE 4.2)…sooooon…I hope…as I’m a NetWare admin running Windows XP desktops…and KDE just looks pretty…but, too buggy for me yet.
Please, please, great linux masters…you’re my only hope.:’(