I am running Suse 11.3 with two monitors and two video controllers – an ATI controller on the
motherboard and a separate PCI ATI board. After some startup problems, I got the onboard
video working properly with the “nomodeset” command on boot, but the other display is
blank.
Thinking it might be the driver, I downloaded the fglrx driver (via YAST2). But now when
the system boots it never opens X windows. I looked at the Xorg.0.log file and I’m getting
a bunch of WW errors and then a seg fault.
The file /usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/installer.html says I can uninstall the driver using the
fglrx-uninstall.sh script, but I can’t find such a script. How do I disable (uninstall, remove, get rid of)
the fglrx driver and get back to where I was? I’m dead in the water if I can’t get X going.
The file /usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/installer.html says I can uninstall the driver using the
fglrx-uninstall.sh script, but I can’t find such a script. How do I disable (uninstall, remove, get rid of)
the fglrx driver and get back to where I was? I’m dead in the water if I can’t get X going.
Use the package manager to search for the installed ‘fglrx’ package, then remove. This can be done from runlevel 3, using the text-mode (ncurses) version of yast (executed from the terminal). You’ll need to do this from a root terminal of course.
Thanks for the replies. The first suggestion worked. I could not log in using
fail safe but I was able to run yast in terminal mode and delete the driver.
The second suggestion should have worked, but there was no uninstall
script ANYWHERE on my system disk
For what it is worth after installing the fglrx drivers I had to use the command “aticonfig --initial” as the superuser, and then reboot, in order for them to work. This was not very long ago either, I just upgraded to 11.3 maybe a couple weeks ago. Oh, before you do that you should probably copy your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to a backup copy, just in case.