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wow talk about confusing directions for the ati drivers. I get this message when trying to install the driver. I have the direction printed out in front of me but ...
  1. 02-23-2007 #1
    linuxnoobie
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    Angry HOWTO ATI driver

    wow talk about confusing directions for the ati drivers. I get this message when trying to install the driver. I have the direction printed out in front of me but it seems it cant detect what X window i have. x.org or free86?

    I have looged on as a root user for this process and i have downloaded all the packages needed to install this driver. Most of them i had installed already but i have to be careful which package i installed fro the ati website. i have downloaded and ran the check.sh file but it does not know what x window system im running.

    Any threads already posted or some more help would be appreciated. I already reinstalled linux vecause of this issue, I have to tell you my NVIDIA cars was much easier to install on linux but i no longer have it

    http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/l...ux-radeon.html



    Verifying archive integrity... All good.
    Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.34.8............................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ..................................
    ==================================================
    ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
    ==================================================
    Detected configuration:
    Architecture: i686 (32-bit)
    X Server: Unknown X Window
    cp: cannot stat `x710/usr/X11R6/bin/*': No such file or directory
    find: install/usr/bin/fireglcontrolpanel: No such file or directory
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  2. 02-24-2007 #2
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    See this http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17340.html
    hope this help
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  3. 02-24-2007 #3
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    Unless you require a bleeding edge driver from ATI then try adding the ATI repository to either YAST or ZMD so you can install the driver easily through "install software". See here http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_Ya...e_Repositories and scroll to almost the end of the page where you'll find the info on adding the ATI repository. Also this link should be useful http://en.opensuse.org/Howto/ATI_Driver
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  4. 02-24-2007 #4
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    Thumbs up Thanks

    I got it installed finally. Thanks for the links also
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