I am trying to install Suse 11.1 on my Asus Laptop. Looks like updating SUSE to Kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-default does not support my ATI Radeon 3400 with ATI fglrx drivers offered in YAST.
Am I doing something wrong ???
After update with Yast I get an unresponsive screen with funny colours…
So no 3d support, no Compiz in KDE 4.2.
Any ideas??
Thanks
Martin
No, ATI is not providing drivers for this kernel version yet, so building your own packages from installer available on the ATI homepage is the only way at the moment.
Have a look at openSUSE Wiki, you will find detailed instructions.
Sorry, Laptop is running on 32 bit, in Kubuntu I had no problems installing the drivers (as they are automically offered)…
I am no Linux-Nerd but using SUSE since Version 7.2 (some years ago by now) with all ups and downs…Have now a triple install with Suse 11.1, Kubuntu 8.10 and Vista…
Like more the Linux way but Vista is still the most easiest to use, Kubuntu is easier than Suse but Suse offers the most options (some of them not working…)
Hope I will find a solution here
Greetings
Martin
I already told you the solution.
Solution is here : ATI Drivers On OpenSuSE 11.1
Thanks guys, works…
Hi!
I followed the guide and it worked perfect for 2minutes. Then it freeze the whole computer.
ATIs ATI-driver for my Radeon Mobility 9700(RV350 NP) really doesnt want to work
RS
Why using fglrx at all for that card?
I have the same card and it works perfectly with free “radeon” driver including 3D since openSUSE 10.2.
I guess in a freesh installation of OS11.1 it install the “radeon”-driver, since fglrx is not from OpenSUSE. So when the installation is finnished the computer act very slow og after few minutes it freeze.
I have to execute “sax2 -r -m 0=vesa” to make the computer work stable.
So not even the “radeon” work stable with my ATI-card. But yes on OS10.3 both “radeon” and “flgrx” worked stable.
RS
Guys, I’ve really tried anything, belive me. There’s no point of using flgrx, even if you try to “hack” sax and make it configure it from scratch, it still will not work with any ATI Radeon 3***. I did try the free ati driver, but I could not activate the 3D for some reason. It still required to reconfigure it. I’ve persoanllly concluded that ATI Radeon 3*** and OpenSUSE 11.1 just do not go together. I’m going to eventually buy a new graphics card… most likely an nVIDIA since they have they open source drivers configured for linux so nicely. Untill then, I’ll go back to 11.0 or 10.3 and keep it that way.
Good luck to all of you trying to solve it the really hard way. If anyone found a solution for ATI Radeon 3200 HD please pm me.
Thank you.
Cough
Sorry, there may be many points pro NVidia on linux but this is certainly not one of them.
The OS-driver “nv” is not 3D-capable, will surely never be as it never was intended to be, while radeon/radeonhd already are or will be soon (with support from ATI/AMD).
The “nouveau”-drivers for NVidia cards are reverse engineered drivers with no support from NVidia at all (and support only fery few cards compared to radeon/radeonhd).
yes, but no matter where what threat I have read, People are having so much trouble getting their Compiz and 3D in general to work using ATI Radeon/Radeonhd while, I have not even found a threat(there probably are, I just never searched for it … anyways…) with anybody having trouble with the nVIDIA drivers… I guess the ones provided @
NVIDIA - openSUSE
work just fine and there’s no need to do anything additional.
I don’t trable with ATI before update kernel.
Now I have downgrade kernel or reinstall SUSE and not update kernel
Compile new drivers from ATI site - work, but unstable, very slowly - I think driver not right intalled(maked) or kernel’s update
I use any metod intstall - from repositery, from ATI site, on 32 bit and 64 bit, from console and more any metod from web - one result for all
Then just have a look here:
Nvidia had massive stability problems with their 180.xx-series and the older driver 177.xx had also massive problems with KDE 4.x.
I also use a NVidia-card with the proprietary drivers and had some issues clearly related to the driver similar to my older card when using that one with fglrx 2 years ago, no problems with free “radeon” drivers there (after it supported my card I immediately switched away from the proprietary fglrx), for my NVidia-card I don’t have a choice if I want 3D acceleration (and presumably it will take quite some time until I might have one with nouveau drivers).
You have to do the exact same amount of additional work as they are located in a 3rd party repo and you must install the right kernel version (in this case you have to update to 2.6.27.19-3.2) if you do not want to use manual installation.
Despite my efforts to help many people on this forum, I’ve very rarely ever bothered to try installing the proprietary graphic drivers for my Linux PCs. In the past I have almost always stuck with the openGL or Vesa drivers. Probably because in the past I have never wanted the higher performance that comes with these drivers. … Like the only game I play on my PC is chess, and the chess pieces don’t move that fast (at least not the way I play ).
Anyway, I finally decided to try install the latest proprietary ATI driver on my openSUSE-11.1 on my Dell Studio 15 laptop. It is running a 2.6.27.19-3 kernel. Rather than adopt the repository installation approach for the ATI driver, I simply downloaded the .run file (for the ati installer) and installed that way. ie. per the 32-bit instructions here:
ATI - openSUSE
After having read so many horror stories, I was anticipating the worst, but instead, nothing bad happened. Everything went as planned. It was smooth and easy to install, as the instructions were simple and not difficult. I rebooted to KDE-3.5.10 with no problem, running the ATI driver. …
I then went and tried some HDV video raw MTS files, and there may have been a very slight improvement, but not much. Clearly for H.264 the ATI driver does not offload much, if anything, to the GPU.
As always, 90% of those horror stories are caused by user’s errors (no kernel-source installed, missing requires like gcc or make and not reading the instructions carefully, etc, etc …)
Installing the drivers (fglrx or Nvidia) was never diffcult (in fact, the basic instructions on how to build a fglrx RPM-package for (open)SUSE haven’t changed for years) and the real problems might (or might not) hit you later (stability), although fglrx is much better than 2 or 3 years ago.
Depending on your card (slightly older radeons for example) fglrx is also not much faster (or not faster at all) than radeon for 3D (if you used radeon before and 3D with your card was supported).
I’m having trouble with my 4870x2. I’ve tried several of the listed guides and just can’t get the ATI drivers to work.I’ve had this card a little over 2 weeks to replace a dead 6800gt.
rest of my system consist of
ASUS M3A32 MVP deluxe/wireless
5000+BE
4 Gig corsair 1066 mem
re: incompatibility of fglrx with suse 11.1 . I had the same problem with 11.1 (2.6.27.45-0.1) and a radeon express 200m. Would run on kde 3 but not on kde 4. So I manually copied the files from the x11-video-fglrxG01-8.593-27.1.x86_64.rpm to their respective destinations without installing the rpm. Now fglrx mostly works, fgl_glxgears -fbo gives 49 fps – note the SGI pbuffer does not work.