Hi there, first of all, I am still pretty new to linux, so you might have to take things slow with me.
Relevant machine specs:
AMD A-10 5800K APU (I believe - perhaps incorrectly? - that this APU does not require the fglrx-legacy driver, but instead the most recent version)
OpenSuse 13.1 - fresh install
8 GB Corsair ram
I am trying to install the proprietary fglrx drivers in order to play Dota 2 and other steam games. There are some workarounds to not having the Catalyst drivers, but the performance is (very) poor.
So instead, I would like to install the proprietary drivers from here: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AMD_fglrx using the 1-click method (did I mention I am new?)
However, while this does download something, YaST does not initialize, even when I go to the folder directly and right click the file “amd-ati-fglrx64.ymp” and tell it to open with YaST. (FWIW, Opera thinks that the downloaded file is 0B. It is actually something like 17 kB, but there is clearly something very wrong here).
So instead, I tried following the instructions for building the rpm myself, further down that same page.
This too lead to an error when the following line was reached:
Compare SHA1 checksum of the AMD-Installer ...
So I tried downloading from the OpenSuse package repository here: http://software.opensuse.org/package/udba-ati-fglrxG02
This too did not work.
I then went to the AMD website to try and download the driver myself. I did manage to get a driver, with a .run extension, but I can’t seem to get that to actually run! When I open the script with vim, there are non unicode characters in it? Perhaps I am getting the windows version, but I definitely selected the Linux version. If there is a simple program or command line I can use to execute that script, please let me know.
As a last resort (and because I lost patience) I tried using the command line installation procedure from the first linked website, and something went terribly terribly wrong. Now, when OpenSuse boots, it does so in the command line interface mode (I believe this means the fglrx installation blacklisted the open source driver, and then failed to install correctly, so that I now have no working graphics driver).
I think I need to do 3 things:
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Blacklist the fglrx driver, and whitelist the open source driver in the command line interface mode, followed by a reboot so I can actually use my beautiful KDE desktop environment
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Actually freakin’ download and install (correctly) the proprietary driver!
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If those somehow both work, maybe I can hope to get the bleeding edge proprietary driver (13.12?)
Can you wonderful people help me with that?