Nick Daniels wrote:
Has anybody managed to get a Raedeon 9000 pro graphics card working in 3D on Suse 8.2.
I've got a 9800 and got it working just fine doing the following:
1) Download the official ATI driver from http://www.ati.com. 2) ENSURE that you have kernel sources installed!! 3) Install the RPM which should then start building the kernel modules. 4) Run fglrxconfig and go through the options to configure X. 5) Start X and you should have 3D acceleration and full support!
As a matter of interest, Roger Whittaker from SuSE was kind enough to forward me SuSE 9 Professional. My initial opinion is that it's much slower to install (both in terms of an extremely sluggish X installer and during the DVD/CD file copy - it was so slow that I aborted the installation at one point, and I've a 3.2Ghz P4 machine!) and I noticed that the BIOS was doing some very strange things - my Dell 8300 has a OS Install option which reduces the memory to 256Mb regardless of however much is installed. Every time I booted the machine I got this message that the amount of RAM in the machine has changed. It was only until I replaced SuSE Professional 9's boot loader that it went away.
I'm now running Fedora Core test release 3 which has so far proven to be a very stable and interesting distro. I may change my mind and install Debian or Gentoo later on, but I'm keen on exploring Fedora for the moment as that's thrown up a few quirks that need reporting :)
Regards,
Martyn