Installing the latest ATI drivers

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I’ve got several issues with the AMD drivers and I hoped that the newest beta might work better. I’m getting an error "Requested package is not supported " when I try to build an rpm package.
Any other way to install the drivers? I don’t want to mess the system up so I tried to avoid installing the drivers with the AMD’s script without building rpm, I’ve read that it gets messy when I try to delete or update the drivers when I don’t install with yast/zypper.
Any ideas?

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On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:26:03 +0000, illusi0n wrote:

> I’ve got several issues with the AMD drivers and I hoped that the newest
> beta might work better. I’m getting an error "Requested package is not
> supported " when I try to build an rpm package.
> Any other way to install the drivers? I don’t want to mess the system up
> so I tried to avoid installing the drivers with the AMD’s script without
> building rpm, I’ve read that it gets messy when I try to delete or
> update the drivers when I don’t install with yast/zypper.
> Any ideas?

Some information would be useful.

  1. Version of openSUSE

  2. Where you acquired the drivers from

  3. What specific steps you took in your installation

  4. What specific AMD hardware you have

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The best way to install any software is, using an official repo.

For amd beta catalyst drivers you’re out of luck.

So if you want to install beta drivers, do it through the command line.

The installer should be able to install or build a rpm.
If you get an error when building the rpm, I doubt he installer will work.

Are you using the right drivers ?

What is your grahics card ? And which driver did you download?

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Sorry for that.
I’m using openSUSE 12.3 64bit with ATI HD6950.
I got the beta from the official site, AMD Catalyst™ Proprietary Display Driver - Linux x86 & Linux x86_64 the direct link to the beta http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.3-beta3-linux-x86.x86_64.zip

As far as the building the rpm goes, after unzipping the installation script I executed

sh amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.3-beta3-linux-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE-autodetection

and got then the message about the package being not supported.

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@illusi0n

on a laptop with Radeon HD 7640G graphics the amd driver installed ok, but not from inside gui,

method used,

  • logout and start in terminal mode
  • login as root
  • give cmd init 3
  • then navigate to the directory with the run file of the amd driver and run with cmd

sh amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-legacy-linux-x86.x86_64.run

hth

if this does not work, paste here the output of cmd
rpm -qa | grep kernel

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I wanted to build an rpm and install the whole thing with zypper. I’ve read that it’s much better than using the amd install script directly.

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I do not use the lagacy driver, but the catalyst for newer cards, has an option to build a rpm.

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Could it be that the " --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE-autodetection " does not detect openSUSE-12.3 because it is not yet included in the list in that AMD installer .run file ?

Use the " --buildpkg " argument to tell it to list the packages it supports -> to confirm openSUSE-12.3 is listed.

If openSUSE is not listed, try specifying openSUSE-12.2 (with appropriate syntax) in the “–buildpkg” argument. According to the links you provided the 1.13 X version should be supported, so that may work on 12.3.

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sh amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.3-beta3-linux-x86.x86_64.run --listpkg

indeed showed that 12.3 is not yet in the list. I built the rpm for 12.2 as you suggested and installed it that way, it seems to work. Now I hope the performance is better and the problems are gone.
Thanks.

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Originally Posted by keellambert View Post
@illusi0n

on a laptop with Radeon HD 7640G graphics the amd driver installed ok, but not from inside gui,

method used,

  • logout and start in terminal mode
  • login as root
  • give cmd init 3
  • then navigate to the directory with the run file of the amd driver and run with cmd

sh amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-legacy-linux-x86.x86_64.run

hth

if this does not work, paste here the output of cmd
rpm -qa | grep kernel

command should be

sh amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.3-beta3-linux-x86.x86_64.run

or the driver of your choice, the drivers support both 3.7 & 3.8 kernels

building the rpm has never been attempted but there are threads covering this procedure

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yes … it looks as though generating an rpm package is not supported at present for openSUSE 12.3_64bit

the response given by the run package :-

Uncompressing AMD Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Driver-12.10.17
 AMD Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Driver Installer/Packager 
=====================================================================
Generating package: SuSE/SUSE-autodetection
Auto detection mode:
   Distribution: openSUSE
   Version:      12.3
   Architecture: x86_64
   Package name: SUSE123-AMD64
Requested package is not supported.
=====================================================================

the install from the run package does work though,
(amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.3-beta3-linux-x86.x86_64.run)

michael@g7-2248sg:~> fglrxinfo
display: :0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 7640G
OpenGL version string: 4.2.12173 Compatibility Profile Context 12.10.17

the package in 'http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-linux-x86.x86_64.zip'
has not been tried
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Good news ! Glad to read that it is working. I hope the problems you encountered before are no longer present.