Really rough guide to ATI/FGLRX on openSUSE 11.0 Beta3 i586
by cyberorg,
Friday, May 16th, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
As I build fglrx drivers for personal use and have to build them on every update of kernel from the patches and specs created by sndirsch over at X11:Drivers:Video repository on openSUSE Build Service, I decided to share them here in case someone wants to test Compiz and other 3D stuff on Beta3.
The packaging is not distribution quality, just posting as I found a lot of visitors refered from google search with ATI fglrx on openSUSE 11.0.
Here are the steps to perform in shell as root:
- Make sure you are running exactly the following kernel(openSUSE installs pae kernel, install the default one for these drivers to work) :
uname -a
Linux prime 2.6.25.3-2-default #1 SMP 2008-05-10 07:46:36 +0200 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
- wget -c http://giannaros.org/other/cyberorg/ati/fglrx-drivers-2.6.25.3-2-default-i586.tar.bz2
- tar xvf fglrx-drivers-2.6.25.3-2-default-i586.tar.bz2
- rpm -Uvh *fglrx* –force –nodeps (required as I’ve been lazy changing the version miss-match, note that there are double-dashes in front of force and nodeps, wordpress messes them up)
- init 3
- sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
- init 5
- Run simple-ccsm as normal user and enable “Desktop Effects”
Did you note that there is no editing of xorg.conf? BTW, you won’t have to do all this hard work when 11.0 is released as the drivers would be available via 1-click and directly through yast when you add ATI/NVIDIA repo. All thanks to openSUSE’s X team and Stefan Dirsch 
Have a lot of fun!
: susenube, May 17, 2008 @ 12:12 am
im still new to this whole linux and suse stuff. what i have always been wondering with these driver stuff thing is, how do i actually uninstall these graphics drivers and x settings once i have messed up, tried the ati drivers and dont want it any more, simply want to revert back to the opensuse 11.0 clean status without accelerated drivers and all this.
oneclick install and documentation on how to install ati stuff on opensuse 10.2 and 10.3 already killed some of my testboxes or i simply didnt want to have wobbly effects and stuff on the desktop any more.
once you go to these 3d and effects x-drivers and systems and whatnot, how can you revert back to a clean and working state where you started from?
any good hints on this uninstall stuff? would really appreciate it. thanks.
: cyberorg, May 17, 2008 @ 9:27 am
if using ATI you can try sax2 -r -m 0=radeonhd to go back to non 3D drivers.
: susenube, May 17, 2008 @ 1:20 pm
ok i can go back to non 3d-drivers but how about the other software stuff i installed for example all this glx, aigxl, compiz, fusion, beryl and whatever.
how do you clean up such a system back into normal non-fancy mode? thanks.
: Vadim P., May 18, 2008 @ 2:54 am
This post isn’t as quite as user friendly as the last one