Hi everybody I am new to this forum and to Linux to
fey days I got open suse 10.2 and I want to install the drivers for the
VGA ATI RADEON X850 XT PE
I downloaded this file form ATI At-driver-installer-8.36.5-x86.x86_64.run
when I start the file should give me a .rpm file which should be the driver
inserted it gives me this in the terminal

Created directory fglrx-install.y24539
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.36.5....................................
==================================================
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================
Detected configuration:
Architecture: x86_64 (64-bit)
X Server: X.Org 7.1.x 64-bit


and everything goes fine until this message pops up

You need to run this installer as the
super-user


so I have no idea what to do and I didn`t sow anywhere login as administrator(root)
I know I am doing something wrong so Please any suggestions are welcomed

when you launch the terminal, you need to type this first:
su -

It will then request your root password.

That's it; now you are super user.

Thanks for the replay jay73 i have just tried this and after i type su -
it give`s me password: but I can`t right anything from the keyboard

You mean you don't get to see the password as you type it? That's normal behaviour, Linux will hide it from you. Just type it in and press enter; if you entered it correclty, the terminal will pop up a new prompt, if not it will tell you that you that the password is wrong.

Thanks for the help dude i finally got it installed but still I have pour 3D acceleration I guess I`ll wait for better drivers, you know it is my first time doing this on Linux it is a lot different than windows mach more difficult dhow but i guess all the beginnings are like that anyways thanks for the Help

great forum

Maybe there is a solution for the poor 3D.

Run this in a terminal:

glxinfo | grep direct

and check whether direct rendering is enabled or not.

ati usually dont work that great for linux. At least ive noticed that with my different ati cards.

I know, I'm using ATI myself - but beginners often run the card without enabling direct rendering - that does make a huge difference.

I am sorry for replying this slow guys but I will defiantly reply, Thanks for the tip jay 73 I sure would like to true the command you gave me but this is what happened to me after enabling desktop 3D effects, I see the loading screen where all the desktop personal settings load: themes,backgrounds,bla, bla, and after this the screen goes blank but the funny thing is that the computer is actually responding and I know this because when i press(not hold) the power but on the computer it automatically shuts down, I have trued to run Linux in fail safe mode no result it can`t even start in this mode so if u can shed Sim light on how to load my
last good configuration or something that will help me to run the system on low resolution so I can shut down this 3D effect it is going to be of great help, or I will reinstall the system but that is last resort,

P S wendea u are right man but I just wonted to see how it looks that`s all I guess Linux is more for work and if I get this fixed i wont bother with the 3D support to much

Hit ctrl + alt + backspace when the screen goes blank.
Log in as "root" when you get a command line and submit your root password when requested.
You will have to disable whatever caused the crashes. Did you enable beryl, compiz, emerald? The safest option would be to try and uninstall all of them by running these commands:
yum -y remove beryl
yum -y remove emerald
yum -y remove compiz
If it says that one or more of those are not installed, then they aren't - leave it at that and get on with the rest.
When you're done, type in:
startx
If that didn't solve it, it could get pretty complicated, I'm afraid.

Anyway, here' a hint : do not even try to run 3D with the fglrx driver installed! Fglrx doesn't support 3d; if you do want all those nice effects, you first have to configure XGL (or use the open source radeon driver - but it's less powerful than fglrx and for all I know it may not (and probably does not) support ATI850). Here's an article which explains how to set up XGL:
http://nicofo.tuxfamily.org/dotclear...eryl-on-fedora

and I am back where I was OK the ctrl+alt+backspace didn`t work so I reinstall the whole thing only now I used KDE I downloaded the File from ati (ati-driver-installer-8.36.5-x86.x86_64.run) and now I cant even get to the .rpm part when I try to start the file it gives me this

The file file:///home/Mikio/Desktop/ati-driver-installer-8.36.5-x86.x86_64.run is a binary, saving it will result in a corrupt file.

That can happen when you try to run the file by clicking on it; you should use the terminal instead. I think you'll need to search google for the proper way to install the ATI; I got out of Suse way too long ago to remember all the fine details .