SUSE ATI x800 Pro driver Hell

mellowdog · 03-08-2005, 11:37 PM

Heya guys, I'm a noob at installing drivers, and from what i can see from the forum ati driver install is like the hardest thing in the whole world for linux (great hardware, terrible driver and support

) Anyways, I figured I would give you the specs of my box, and tell you my problem, and maybe someone out there has been in my shoes and knows how to get out of this damn hole.

I have a AMD 64 bit processor with suse 9.2 freshly installed with the 64bit ftp dvd.
No other hardware problems or complaints (cept the font dpi is kinda big if someone knows how to fix that let me know) except i have no 3d/ogl support for my radeon x800 pro. I just recently switched from Micro$oft over to suse because i like its stability and well, everything windows doesnt have. But the big thing is, I CANT PLAY ANY GAMES!

So I went to the ati website and downloaded the proprietary drivers for x.org (i think thats what i needed) and installed the rpm with YaST. That was a big mistake, I rebooted and i was stuck in the black terminal and kde or gnome wouldnt load up. So i reinstalled hoping that this time I can be more successfull.

So if ANYONE knows how I can get my 3d/opengl acceleration up and running i would be sooo happy. I'd hate to give up on linux I love it so much already I just want it to work to its full capability

(I'm a big noob, so i dont know anything about compiling source or kernels so please dumb it down as much as you can.)

Thanks!

md

califdreas · 03-09-2005, 12:14 AM

you can find the ati driver for Suse 9. here: ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ATI/suse92/x86_64/fglrx/8.10.19
you should follow the readme to the letter.

Regarding the fonts: under Yast->Hardware->Monitor & Gfx you can change the settings for our monitor: enter the real dimensions of your screen (in millimeters), that shoulds help. Another way is to create a new line in /etc/X11/Xresources like
Xft.dpi:96
(the smaller the number, the smaller the font).

HTH
-andreas

mellowdog · 03-09-2005, 01:09 AM

i followed the readme as far as i could be i got an error right here this is my terminal session:

Code:

linux:/usr/src/linux # rm -f .config
linux:/usr/src/linux # make cloneconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 127
make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2

any ideas?

mellowdog · 03-09-2005, 01:58 AM

i got it to work finally, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Id kiss you if i could.

SCREW YOU MICROSOFT!
LINUX PWNS j00!!!