[OpenSuSE] ATI Mobility Radeon x700 IGP Driver Installation

My Laptop인 ASUS A6Va에 들어있는 이 Radeon X700 내장그래픽카드는 리눅스 드라이버의 호환성이 그다지 좋지 않은 녀석이다. 설정이 약간만 잘못되면 그냥 blank screen으로 돌변해버린다.
한동안 문제가 없었기 때문에 방심하고 최신드라이버를 konvenientSuSE를 통해서 설치했더니 어김없이 화면이 나가버렸다.
설치DVD의 복구모드로 부팅하여 inittab을 수정, runlevel 3로 겨우 부팅하여 재설정 중이다.

sax2 -m 0=vesa 명령을 이용하면 xwindow를 VESA모드로 시작할 수 있다.

그럼 이제 새로이 드라이버를 설치한다.

ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver 8.37.6

OpenSuSE ATI Driver HOWTO

Unofficial Wiki for the ATI Linux Driver - SuSE/OpenSuSE

ATI Installer HOWTO for SUSE/Novell users

3D Acceleration for ATI cards (works for SuSE, Mandriva and Debian)

YET ANOTHER Installation Guide: Generally following this guide should help most.


A slightly simplified version from Unofficial Wiki
1. BACKUP your current /etx/X11/xorg.conf file, preferably to your home directory. Now change to a command shell by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1.

2. Remove any previous versions of the ATI driver by either

If you have installed a previous ATI driver version without using RPM packages (or if you don't know if you have or not), type the following:

cd /usr/share/ati 
sh ./fglrx-uninstall.sh

Otherwise, and even if you've done the above type the following,

rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep fglrx)

3. Change the directory containing the downloaded ati-driver...run file.

4. Change the permissions of the driver file to executable by typing the following:

chmod +x ./ati-driver...

Use the tab button to complete the rest of the ati-driver... file name.

5. Create a SuSE RPM (info is for 32 bit version) from the file by typing

./ati-driver.(fillintheblanks).run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE101-IA32

6. Install the created fglrx... file by typing

rpm -ivh fglrx_...(hit tab again to get full name)...

7. I've no idea what the following does, but you're recommended to run it:

ldconfig

8. Now run the ati config commands:

aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

9. Now run the Sax2 setup.

sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx

You may wish to alter the refresh rates and DPI info with this, otherwise just hit save. DO NOT hit the test button, it regually crashes my machine when i do...

10. Reboot you machine. Do not use the reboot command, again this messes my machine up on the next boot for whatever reason... try

shutdown -h now

11. Boot up again, and check the new /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, compare it to your old one, and make any changes if you know what you're doing.