[Novalug] Re: ATI Radeon 9200 and 3D support, OpenSUSE 10.3

[Mike Shade]

Jay,

The missing dependency is the required kernel. The driver is compiled 
against a 'big-smp'
 kernel, which means a multi CPU box, probably with more than 4GB of 
RAM.  You're probably running a non-smp kernel anyway, so you'd need to 
compile from source.  The driver you found here isn't going to work for you.

Honestly, running with the pure included 'radeon' driver should do you 
fine.  You shouldn't have any need to dig up obscure builds of it to get 
DRI going.  I used a 9000Pro for years with that driver (and at other 
times, fglrx) without issues.  Have you tried that yet?  If so, what 
problems do you have?

-- Mike

Jay Hart wrote:
> I've posted a screen shot of what I get when I try to install the 8.40.4
> version drivers from:
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/ATI#The_Easy_Way
>
> Using the Easy method.
>
> screen shot at www.kevla.org/depend-problems.jpg
>
> Don't know if I should should try and ignore dependencies, and go ahead and
> install.
>
> Jay
>
>   
>> Jay Hart wrote:
>>     
>>> This is very detailed, I hope I don't leave something out. I have a ATI
>>> radeon
>>> 9200 AGP card. Using video driver "RV280 5961".
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Any reason your not using the open source radeon driver?  If memory
>> serves me correctly, its either the radeon driver, or the fglrx driver
>> from ATI.  I'd stay away from the fglrx if you don't need bleeding edge
>> functionality, which the 9200 probably doesn't support anyway.
>>
>> More info: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon
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