Hi all you Linux users,

I am some what new to Linux, so bare with me….

I got a hold of Suse 9.3, i put it on and i love it but i cant seem to get 3d acceleration going with my ATI 9600pro...

now i know this has been a problem for a number of people coz i have seen it on many posts, but all i want is a straight answer of what i have to do and how to do it.

im downloading 10.0 atm, will this fix my problems ???

And would the official boxed thing give ATI support ???


plz help me!!!

Thank you !

You need ATIs proprietary drivers for 3D acceleration. Go here,

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...e&folderID=300

and select "RADEON 8500 Series and higher" depending on whether you have an x86 or Athlon 64 system, and follow the links. I think they have rpms for Suse, though I used the tar.gz and installed manually (I use Slackware but I have a Suse 9.2 test installation and the driver worked fine on that).

You need to run the ati configuration utility (fglrxconfig or something like that).

Oh, and if you have any special settings in your XF86Config/xorg.conf (e.g. graphics tablet), then back it up before installing the driver. It wiped out my config (lucky I had a backup).

First thing to do is ensure you remove any old fglrx RPMs. Next thing to do is make sure you have your kernel_source installed through YAST and that it matches your currently configured kernel.

After that run the ati Installer program and create a distro specific RPM for whichever version of SuSE you are using.

Next all you have to do is install the resulting RPM with YAST. This RPM will install the driver as well as compiling and installing the kernel-module.

Now that you have done that you can do one of 2 things. You can run fglrxconfig from a terminal, or you can run the SaX command metioned in:

/usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/README.SuSE

Also SuSE mentions a patch here:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/sup...ler-HOWTO.html

Based on the patch name, it appears to be a 64 bit system kernel patch, but I can't confirm that for sure. I can however tell you that I currently run the 8.16.20 driver from ATI on openSuSE 10.0 RC1 (non 64 bit) without any problems and I have not applied the kernel patch.

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