Help needed: ATI Radeon® Xpress 1100 on OpenSUSE 11.1

[DjDarkman]

Hello, I'm an Ubuntu/SUSE user, and I need help installing fglrx on OpenSUSE, documentation and packages seem to be very poor and after I install the driver by hand all I get is:

name of display: :0.0
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  144 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
  Serial number of failed request:  15
  Current serial number in output stream:  15

This is my laptop: http://acer.com/products/notebook/as5100.htm

And I would like to install the newest ATI driver on OpenSUSE 11.1.

Thank you in advance.

[BasilPugfury]

Here's what I do to install the latest ATI driver on openSUSE 11.1:

Make sure you have kernel_source and 'make' installed.

Download latest ATI driver from ATI/AMD website.

Create openSUSE 11.1 driver package from ATI driver download.

Copy fglrx_* to /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/.

Enter init 3 as su in terminial

cd /usr/src/linux

make proper

make clone_config

make modules_prepare

make clean

remove your old fglrx driver using:
rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep fglrx)

cd /usr/src/packages/RMPS/i386/
rpm -Uvh [fglrx .rpm name here, omit brackets]

cd /

ldconfig

sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx

Reboot

That's it! I put all the above into a simple bash script called 'driver_change' for easily changing video drivers.

Hope this helps you.

[Odin]

I got the same error message on my new Fedora 10 system and since fglrx installation (specially with my mobility x1600) is a pain in the ass I had to use this how-to:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...t=155503&pp=10

Found it via wiki.cchtml.com . They have some tutorials for SuSE too:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/SUSE/openSUSE