1-Click Install ATI Driver For ATI X1950 Video Card Corrupts Suse 11.1
Hello
I have installed Open Suse 11.1 on two different machines. One contains an ATI X850 video card, and the other contains an ATI X1950 video card. I updated the ATI drivers on the 850 card and it works like a dream. I updated the ATI drivers on the 1950 card and Suse becomes unusable. System works fine before the update. Before the update I ran it at a resolution of 1280 x 1024. I thought I would lower it to 1024 x 768 to see if that would help, but it does not. I dual boot with WinXP, and card works fine with that setup at 1280 x 1024, so I would suspect this is a specific problem with my Suse setup as opposed to a Motherboard issue. I would love to take advantage of my video card, so any assistance as to what to do here would be greatly appreciated. Harpo |
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That the resolution is not good ? In that case start opensuse in the failsafe mode and run yast2 as root And than yast2>hardware>graphic card and monitor . It will probe youŕe graphic card and monitor again . See it comes up with something useful if so save it Or run sax2 from the CLI of course as root Or change youŕe xorg.conf manually |
By unusable I mean I get the KDE GUI to come up, but I can't get anything to open. I would click on an icon and the screen just flickers over and over nothing will open. I can change my resolution to anything I want before the install of the video driver update. So what should I run my card at? I would thing that at least 1024 x 768 would be fine. I will try failsafe to see what it says.
I can't even boot into failsafe mode. I only get a blank screen that won't allow me to do anything. If I reinstall Suse I know all will be fine until I update driver. I have done this 3 times now. What am I missing or not thinking of here? Harpo |
Well it might be that the driver is not correct.
If you still like to use opensuse disable the auto update. Update manually and do not select the driver update |
What do you mean by the wrong driver? Is there another place to get them? I would love to be able to use the full power of my video card, and would really like to be able to get it going. I appreciate any help I can get in getting this set up properly.
Thanks Harpo |
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