I am a brand new user of openSuse, I have used other distributions (Ubuntu) once for a short time… not enough to really learn. The install was easy enough.
I am having a video problem with Suse. I have an ATI video card. Can someone spell out plainly what I need to do to get smoother and faster scrolling? My web experience is very jerky and slow. Is there an ATI driver that covers most cards? I am not certain about the particular model of a video card I have.
I can NOT help with tuning your ATI card/driver. But I can help you identify what card you have.
Open a Gnome=Terminal or a KDE konsole and type:
**su -c ‘sax2 -p’**and that should tell you what card
The video card I have is ATI RV280 5964
Can you help me now?
I am running openSuse. Are you telling me that I have the right driver installed? I don’t understand your post.
No. I’m not telling you that. How could I know what driver you have installed, if you have not told me? Do you know what driver is being used on your PC ?
In case you do not know how to find out - then one way to find out what driver your xorg.conf file is trying to use, is to type in a gnome-terminal or kde-konsole:
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.confnote linux is case senstive
To repeat what I stated in my first post, I can NOT help with tuning your ATI card/driver. If I was in your position, and if I did not have the best driver, I would surf the web looking for a how-to for installing the ATI driver on openSUSE.
Further to my last post, typically, based on the little that I know, your driver could be:
A simple guide for installing the ati driver is here:
ATI Installer HOWTO for SUSE/Novell users
It states quite clearly it works with a RADEON 9250 (RV280 5960)
But the above is from surfing, and NOT from experience. As I have already stated, I can NOT help with tuning your ATI card/driver.
“No. I’m not telling you that. How could I know what driver you have installed,”
First, I know squat, (I said that already) and I want to learn.
Secondly, “ATI - openSuse” is not a complete sentence, and communicates nothing to me. I was looking for clarification. Thanks.
Just keep asking for help here, and someone with ATI experience will chime in. I’m offering the best that I can.
If you click on “ATI - openSuse” you will see it is a very comprehensive “HOW-TO” guide with not only installation information, but also tuning information.
I think after clicking on that, it is rather intuitively obvious that it is a “HOW-TO”.
Again, good luck with your efforts.
Doh!! I didn’t notice that ATI -openSuse was a link!
My apologies! Thanks.