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AMD recently dropped support for HD Radeon series 2000x, 3000x and 4000x. This is neither Linux nor openSUSE’s fault.
This “sticky” thread would have told you not to update the driver - which also means not to install the latest version: dont update ATI proprietary driver on Radeon HD 4000, Radeon HD 3000 or Radeon HD 2000!. This is the reason why it didn’t work for you under Ubuntu (it would have 2 months ago).
Thanks for your reply above - I was at my wits end when I made my comment. I suppose what I was trying to say was that when I have installed windows, on whatever box, *the graphics always worked! *What I couldn’t understand is why Ubuntu didn’t load a default simple driver to enable me to get through to a point where I would be able to fix the driver, as Windows does. What it meant was that I was unable to continue with Ubuntu in any way as I literally could not see anything on screen and had no linux skills to preconfigure it.
I didn’t give up though - I found openSuse and it at least got me through so I could use the failsafe option after making some BIOS changes. And here I am now looking at a decent screen, although I don’t quite understand how!
I do appreciate all your help and everybody else’s too. I was complaining about the awkwardness of getting things done i Linux rather than the help I was given, which I appreciated and did acknowledge.
Kind regards,
Stuart