I installed ATI's new (proprietary) driver over the weekend, and I have yet to get it to work properly (and I followed SuSE's instructions to the letter numerous times). I attempted to revert back to the Xorg drivers, but X refused to start.

I did this:

init 3

modprobe -r fglrx

modprobe radeonfb

I copied my backups of XF86Config to /etc/X11, and deleted the xorg.conf which ATI's driver needs.

Then rebooted.

ATI's proprietary driver still shows up.

What am I missing? How do I revert back to the original driver?

Thanks in advance.

Have you looked in XF86Conf-4?
There should be a line in Device which sez fglrx, change it to ati, radeon or whatever the old driver was.
Notice; that you are not uinstalling the driver but telling X to use something else.

That was one of the first things I tried, since I made a backup of the XF86Configs before I installed the new driver. But it didn't work---screen was unreadable. I then ran modprobe -r fglrx and modprobe radeon and tried to start X again (with the original XF86Config), but the screen was still garbled.

Try to remove the driver by using apt-get remove fglrx-driver.

I've now removed (with some help from a skilled Debian user) the fglrx driver.
It's too bad that ATI haven't released a general driver which is not a binary.
Even though I tried the ATI driver and made it work somehow, it made more trouble than it was worth.

I tried that, and still had problems (apt for SuSE rocks). I ended up re-installing SuSE, as I trashed the kernel attempting to get rid of all traces of ATI's driver.

I agree with you---the ATI driver is more trouble than it is worth. I tried (for four days) to get it to work, and it never did work properly.

Thanks.

geez...its working fairly well for me..using Xorg 6.8.1 and an R300 ! had it up in 15 minutes..and that includes the download time and reboot time. You are using the Suse RPM and the Suse kernel module RPM right? if ya didn`t know they got it in supplimentary in the 9.2 dir. only bug I see is Sax2 doesn`t think its got 3D..but glxgears is about 2800 fps and fgl_glxgears is about 580 fps..and the Sax2 bug is in the readme so at least Suse is aware..oh did ya try removing the package from add/remove software in YAST?...you didn`t mention uninstalling the RPM...and that would be one of the first things I`d try if not already done

Yep. I downloaded and installed the day after they were posted. Never could get them to work, no matter what.

It could be that I have a laptop (RV350). All I know is that after an entire weekend of fighting it (two twelve-hour sessions) and two more days after work fighting it (two four-hour sessions), X still used the Mesa driver. I gave up. But X didn't work too well after removing the ATI driver, so I had to re-install the ATI driver and configure X to use the Xorg radeon driver instead of ATI's driver. X still did strange things, thus the battle trying to rid the system of all the ATI stuff.

Only after a complete re-install of SuSE is everything back to normal.

I won't try any ATI drivers in the future, at least on a laptop....

I don`t blame ya there...sounds like more fun than getiing run over by a bus I`ll have to recommend to my freinds to stay away from the new one if they use a mobile chip