On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:56:03 +0000, af67pmr7160 wrote:
> The AMD instructions in the release notes indicates that this driver
> should (must?) be uninstalled before attempting to install any other
> follow-on driver.
>
> http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/Catalyst_11.11_Linux_Installer.pdf
>
> The newer Catalyst driver instruction indicates to un-install the driver
> by running their own un-install shell. > “aticonfig --uninstall” or sh
> ati-driver-installer-x86.x86_64.run
>> --uninstall sh /usr/share/ati/amd-uninstall.sh
When the installation is done, it appears the radeon driver is
blacklisted so it won’t load on its own.
> Is this a new format for conf files? (I confess, I haven’t been studying
> the release notes for opensuse versions) Instead of 1 big config
> file, several (specific) small ones?
11.4 uses this type of setup as well. I’ve not had to tweak anything
myself as the installations just have worked for me up until this point
(and for me the Catalyst driver install ‘works’ - the driver just doesn’t
work very well).
> I am guessing that since I actually didn’t load an ATI driver and then
> go back to a default or previous driver , I didn’t appear to generate
> any “conf.old” files.
>
> It appears that I can just continue following the AMD instructions above
> for the “11.11” driver carefully.
With the Catalyst drivers, do:
lsmod | grep fglrx
That should tell you if it’s loaded or not. If the kernel module isn’t
loaded, it won’t run.
> I am not sure that the repo mentioned has the latest driver (11.11)
> Maybe no one has built the RPM yet?
I downloaded the 11.11 release and compared - the driver version is the
same. (8.911-1)
Jim
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