Installing a Radeon 9200 se in SuSE 9 pro.
 

Hi,
I'm a complete novice and I was wondering if anyone could give me a step by step guide to install and configure my radeon 9200SE card in SuSE 9 pro.
Everything else was picked up on installation including my TV card but the graphics card is using VESA drivers with no 3d acceleration and only 16 bit colour.
I got the rpm package from ATI's site and I installed them with yast but the card is still not listed in sax2 when I try to configure it.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi,

there are rpms on suse's ftp-Server for suse 9 pro. They come together with a README, that explaines the intallation procedure. They worked perfectly here, at least 2D.

But then i installed the original drivers from ati and killed X :( ... so stay with the suse rpms!

Elderian

Hi,

Ive downloaded the rpms and I'll try them tonight. The ATI drivers worked 2D only but were still listed as mesa drivers. Apparently you have to do a force install. Once I find out how to do that I'll try that as well because I'd like 3D accelleration to work to try some games.
Thanks for the reply.

Keith.

Hey,

To do a force install, just use go into a console (e.g. Alt-Ctrl-F2), cd into the directory the rpms are in. Then use:

rpm --force packagename.rpm

and if you're updating add -Uhv before --force.

Hope this helps, 'cos I got the same problem, I've got the same card, and I can get 2d, but no 3d, mesa is always used :-(.

Manuel

Elderian:

By the way, I also get a black screen and complete lock-up when starting X, and I found out why: It's if I don't use the external AGP module; this question is asked when running fglrxconfig, "Do you want to use the external AGP module" or something, default is "n". If I use the default, I get the black screen.

heres what I had to do to get them installed...

go to etc/modprobe.conf and go to the bottom. after the other lines that look like this add -
install fglrx { /sbin/modprobe -k agpgart; } ; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install fglrx
install dri { /sbin/modprobe -k agpgart; } ; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install dri

save it and go to modules.conf

go to the bottom where the lines are similar and add -
pre-install fglrx /sbin/modprobe "-k" "agpgart"
pre-install dri /sbin/modprobe "-k" "agpgart"

save that.

then run the fglrx....rpm install

this worked for me on SuSE 9.0. Good luck!

:)