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05-23-2009, 11:44 AM
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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Canada
Distribution: Suse 10.0 Retail, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, Edubuntu 7.04, Mandriva 2010
Posts: 89
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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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05-24-2009, 06:39 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2007
Location: In front of my LINUX OR MAC BOX
Distribution: Mandriva 2009 X86_64 suse 11.3 X86_64 Centos X86_64 Debian X86_64 Linux MInt 86_64 OS X
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Originally Posted by Harpo
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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What do you mean exactly by unusable ?
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
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05-24-2009, 09:28 AM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Canada
Distribution: Suse 10.0 Retail, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, Edubuntu 7.04, Mandriva 2010
Posts: 89
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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
Last edited by Harpo; 05-24-2009 at 09:49 AM.
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05-24-2009, 11:37 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2007
Location: In front of my LINUX OR MAC BOX
Distribution: Mandriva 2009 X86_64 suse 11.3 X86_64 Centos X86_64 Debian X86_64 Linux MInt 86_64 OS X
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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
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05-25-2009, 06:28 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Canada
Distribution: Suse 10.0 Retail, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, Edubuntu 7.04, Mandriva 2010
Posts: 89
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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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