My screen scrolls in waves as if refreshing every movement. I have installed the right video driver. I am wondering if the problem is the keyboard and/or mouse. Any thoughts or suggestions would help. In the meantime I still have to use Windows to avoid a seizure. I would like to use only Linux SUSE 10.2.

Is it just firefox or all apps ? Firefox has a "smooth scrolling" option. Have you checked to make sure that X is using the correct driver ? I'm a Kubuntu fan, so I'm afraid I'm not much help for suse issues.

Good luck...

David

Free Loader: Smooth scrolling option is selected in Firefox. Problem exists throughout. X is using the correct driver.

Firefox is set to smooth scrolling and X recognizes the driver.

Which driver are we talking about? And how did you install it? Oh yes, and how do you know that it's properly recognized by X?

Driver for Radeon 9250 downloaded from ATI.
I downloaded it again(root)and it stated that it was already installed.
Other than that I do not know if it is properly installed.
Any suggestions appreciated.

Let me know whether you installed it like this:

- build driver using --buildpkg
- init 3
- cd /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86
- rpm -ivh fglrx*
- ldconfig && aticonfig --initial --input =/etc/X11/xorg.conf
- sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
- init 5

Also, could you post xorg.conf (it's under /etc/X11) so we can see just how your X is configured?

I installed it following the procedure on http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/254/

My first impression, that how-to looks a bit outdated. Have a look at the file xorg.conf which is under X11, which itself is under the /etc directory. Which driver does it report under section "device"?

Tried this. It crashed. Had to reboot.

If just trying to have a look at a file is enough to make your system crash, then something must be seriously worng. Try again. If it still does that, we'll have to bring out the heavy guns.

Edit: Getting confused after reading your post again. What do you mean exactly, "Tried this." Simply looking into xorg.conf as I assume, or did you try to reinstall the driver as explained in my previous post????

It crashed simply looking into xorg.conf . Two other times it crashed like this is when I tried to access the mouse file and video/monitor file while in YAST. Very strange!

Something definitely wrong with xorg there.

You could try generating a new xorg.conf from the command line. Before doing so, make sure you have a proper back-up of your current one because it will get overwritten in the process. Type this into a terminal:

su -
root password
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak

When you're done, change to runlevel 3:

init 3

then run this command:
/usr/bin/xorgconfig

Follow the instructions; I think they're clear and intuitive. Do some research before you start: what screen resolution does your screen support, whick kind of mouse and keyboard have you got, ... Also when you are asked to select a video driver, just select VESA - this is a generic driver that works always; you can install your ATI driver when X is up and running again.

Then you can reboot:

reboot

Don't worry if you don't get it right straightaway; you can always start over. If you can't get into Gnome/KDE anymore, you can simply boot into runlevel three by adding this to your boot line in Grub:

3

And then redo the xorgconfig. That's all, really.

If it doesn't work and you need to recover your old display, you place back your xorg.conf.bak:

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Problem solved. Thanks jay73. With your suggestions and some help locally we got it working properly. Excellent. I am learning a lot as a newbie.

Care to post what you learned so others might learn it too? Someone might stumble on this page using Google, and recording how you fixed it might help them too