Hey guys…pretty new user here. First, let me provide some information.
I was having wireless problems, and I could not get the wireless-compat package installed for the latest kernel. So, I went back to the .5 kernel and installed the package and the wireless was working great. However, I could not add the ATI repo, I got a checksum/security issue warning when I tried to add it. I decided to just do a regular download+ install with the sh. command, like I did before. I downloaded the new 10.2 driver for my Radeon 3200 HD card, and that’s where things went sour. Whenever I boot into SUSE, there’s no mouse pointer and things are very buggy. I somehow need to uninstall this driver and add the repo or try the 10.1 driver I was using before.
64 Bit 11.2 OpenSUSE
KDE 4.40
HD Radeon 3200 GFX
AMD Athlon X2 DC
I can provide more information if you need me to, but I’m typing this from Windoze. Failsafe mode still has a mouse pointer, though.
It appears both the “–buildpkg SuSE/SUSE112-AMD64” from ATi’s main site drivers and the repo drivers are broken. I have the same problem. Kind of annoying not having any 3D accel.
I had a similar first round experience with my HD3200 equipped HP DV7 laptop after upgrade to 11.2 and downloading the 10.2 ATI driver.
After reviewing the install log at /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log, I realized I had forgotten to load the kernel development RPMs, so there were many errors found in the log.
I ran the uninstall script in that same directory, loaded the kernel-dev package and reran the ati.xxx.run, second time with good success.
Perhaps when you backed down the kernel to .5 you forgot the -dev package?
I am finding the 10.2 version of fglrx very well behaved so far.
I tested these on an openSUSE-11.2 liveCD on a Radeon HD3450 and they worked well. During that liveCD session I had both 2D and 3D working well … If the drivers are broken, IMHO its hardware specific (ie only for certain hardware).