Hi everyone.
As you can see from a thread`s title,my graphical environment KDE has gone after the following simple steps in “Installing ATI drivers” thread of Advanced FAQ.
After rebooting, it shows me only console,which asks login and password.
Guys tell me please how can I bring things back and actually install ATI driver…? I cant reinstall system cause all my studying stuff there…
Thanks
P.S. OpenSUSE 11.3
howzit segaman91?
did you add the ati community repos? i’ll assume you did. i tried diagnosing so many times that my head is still spinning so i finally gave up and here is a sledgehammer approach to how i resolved the problems i had:
at the console login as root
yast2
go into software repositories
delete (or disable) ati repo and click <ok> to confirm
go into software management and search for fglrx
delete all matching installed packages
search for and install xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd or whatever matches your chipset
accept to confirm and then quit
init 5 to start kdm
hth, give me a shout if it doesn’t.
cheers
aztrix
ps i’ve had so much trouble with the ati drivers over the years that i’ve given up until they offer decent support for linux and in particular openSUSE x86_64 but to be honest with you their support on windows isn’t much better, i’ll be trying nvidia next time.
This is unfortunate but perfectly normal. You have to recompile the fglrx module after each kernel update, as explained in this post/thread ATI driver + kernel update: before you reboot and before you complain… and in many others. This is a recurrent theme in this forum.
I also posted a script here automatically recompile kernel modules after kernel update, which will recompile the ati module (among others that you can define) automatically after kernel update.
aztrix
howzit segaman91? did you add the ati community repos? i'll assume you did. i tried diagnosing so many times that my head is still spinning so i finally gave up and here is a sledgehammer approach to how i resolved the problems i had: at the console login as root yast2 go into software repositories delete (or disable) ati repo and click <ok> to confirm go into software management and search for fglrx delete all matching installed packages search for and install xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd or whatever matches your chipset accept to confirm and then quit init 5 to start kdm hth, give me a shout if it doesn't. cheers aztrix ps i've had so much trouble with the ati drivers over the years that i've given up until they offer decent support for linux and in particular openSUSE x86_64 but to be honest with you their support on windows isn't much better, i'll be trying nvidia next time.
Hey, Id not lie that "Im fine" cause Im not... To deal. I got no ATIs repo so nothings to delete.
FGLRX and Xorg-x11-driver were already installed and I decided to reinstall them. But when I deleted fglrx,its gone. I mean, Software Management shows me "not found" when Im trying to find and install it again. And I dont exactly understand what you mean by
delete all matching installed packages
. God ****…Maybe I should just install Debian?) Because I got feeling OpenSUSE is unstable.
If this command
rpm -qa | grep fglrx
outputs something, then delete that package with:
zypper rm packagename
It he file /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh exists, then execute that script.
It has nothing to do with openSUSE’s stability. Either compile the fglrx module for the kernel you’re using or install the ATI driver from the ATI repo. However the driver from the repo may not function properly with all ATI chipsets.
The problem is gone:) Thanks for help guys :d
I just chose failsafe mode in grub and add the ati repo 