Re: [opensuse] Help with ATI drivers - please

On Saturday 05 May 2007, Jim Flanagan wrote:
I did not follow the ATI instructions on opensuse.org, but rather tried
the point and click method as outlined above. I have tried the manual
method before with an nvidea card, but never got that to work either.

One failure with one brand does not constitute a valid datapoint for another
brand.

Go to the ATI (amd) website.
Downloads section.

Download the proper driver .run package for your distro
and processor.

Store in /root directory

Ctrl-Alt-F1
type init 3 (enter)
chmod 700 <downloaded.run) (where downloaded is a stand in for the big
long fuzzy name, similar to ati-driver-installer-8.36.5-x86.x86_64.run
(which may vary by processor)

./<downloaded.run> --help (read for clues)
./<downloaded.run> --listpkg (see list of packages it can build>
./<downloaded.run> --buildpkg <package> (where <package> is from above list

stand back and watch der blinkin lights und spitzen sparks...

rpm --install (rpm name created by above)



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