Can't get proprietary ATI drivers to work with Radeon HD 8790M on openSUSE 13.2
Hello everyone. As the title says, I can't get the proprietary ATI drivers to work on a fresh install of openSUSE 13.2.
My computer is a DELL Latitude E6540 notebook with a Radeon HD 8790M. When I install the drivers using the "glrx64_xpic_SUSE132" package in yast, the drivers don't work. This seems to lead to strange behaviour like the yast GUI not starting. If I try running "aticonfig -initial", then this creats an xorg.conf file with which X cannot start (by default there does not seem to be an xorg.conf). I've tried installing an older version of the "glrx64_xpic_SUSE132" package as well as building the rpm myself as outline at the bottom of: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AMD_fglrx Nothing has worked so far. I'd be grateful for any advice. Here are my hardware details as output by lspci and the likes. Code:
# lspci Code:
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You can use: http://pastebin.com/ to load the text then provide the link to that pastebin page within the post.
Please be sure to reply within your created thread instead of duplicating the thread. These are not network induced duplicates. You have hours between the post and you even noted the error with apologies if it was a duplicate. No reason to continue this habit. You have done this several times over the last few days. So please, make some effort on your part so this problem does not continue. |
as per the instructions
Did you black list the already installed OPEN source driver ? and did you rebuild the boot image first BEFORE trying to install the closed source driver from the ATI repo you do need to do everything |
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I appologise again for the double post, I posted a 2nd time because my original post disappeard after a few hours and I was worried that it had gotten lost somehow. I guess it was revealed prematurely pending admin approval and then got hidden again. I can't possibly have done this several times over the last few days, since I only just signed up yesterday. Quote:
Apart from that I'm not sure which instructions you are referring to. The openSUSE page I linked to does not mention rebuilding a boot image. After playing around with my configs, I now believe that the problem is that the integrated intel GPU is being given priority over the ATI card. See my X log here: http://pastebin.com/Gbn9qDEq If I force X to only use the ATI card (by using the commands "aticonfig --initial" and "aticonfig --px-dgpu), then I appear to be getting seg faults: http://pastebin.com/cj91dfQT And finally my dmesg log in case that is of any use: http://pastebin.com/i5RiQVxY |
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http://pastebin.com/ is just one to use. You can use http://imageshack.com/f/nmscreenshotat20120205145p for large images. Our mod control panel shows the post/thread awaiting approval and the time mod getting to the task of approval can lag. My inclusion for 'Last few days' was that you had done the same thing over the last two days. My mistake, should have stated as such. |
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did you rebuild the boot image to REMOVE the opensourcce driver BEFORE trying to install the AMD .bin driver also you HAVE to have already have installed the kernel source for the RUNNING kernel and gcc and autotools |
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http://www.sebastian-siebert.de/2014...-installieren/ None of these installation methods mention the need for kernel sources. After much mucking about, I came to the conclusiong that the fglrx drivers would load (I could see them in the output of lsmod), but that they caused segmentation faults when X was trying to start. Unfortunately I ran out of patience after that and reverted back to openSUSE 13.1 where everything works. Thank you for taking the time to give me advice onebuck and John VV. |
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