Linux

[bgast1]

I'm back trying a new distro out. This time I have SuSe installed. I can't get a video driver installed. I have an ATI Radeon X1950 Pro. PCIe card. I got it to work in Ubuntu, I got it to work in PCLOS just fine. I tried to install the driver from the repos and this is what I got.

SaX2 cannot offer activation of the 3D Subsystem because your graphics card/driver doesn't support 3D

I went to the AMD/ATI site and downloaded the driver to my desktop. This is the output of what I tried.

bob@linux-m2hh:~> su
Password:
linux-m2hh:/home/bob # cd /home/bob/Desktop
linux-m2hh:/home/bob/Desktop # ati-driver-installer-7-11-x86.x86_64.run
bash: ati-driver-installer-7-11-x86.x86_64.run: command not found
linux-m2hh:/home/bob/Desktop # chmod +x ati-driver-installer-7-11-x86.x86_64.runlinux-m2hh:/home/bob/Desktop # ati-driver-installer-7-11-x86.x86_64.run
bash: ati-driver-installer-7-11-x86.x86_64.run: command not found
linux-m2hh:/home/bob/Desktop #

SuSe uses RPM.

 

[Padma]

try typing "./ati-driver-installer-7-11-x86.x86_64.run"

*nix doesn't know to look in the current directory for runnable files. It *always* follows the $PATH variable.

 

[bgast1]

bob@linux-m2hh:~> su
Password:
linux-m2hh:/home/bob # ./ati-driver-installer-7-x86x86_64.run
bash: ./ati-driver-installer-7-x86x86_64.run: No such file or directory
linux-m2hh:/home/bob # cd /home/bob/Desktop
linux-m2hh:/home/bob/Desktop # ./ati-driver-installer-7-x86x86_64.run
bash: ./ati-driver-installer-7-x86x86_64.run: No such file or directory
linux-m2hh:/home/bob/Desktop #

Better yet, if I reinstall PCLOS, can you help me with getting PCLOS to see my external hard drive. In Mepis it saw it as removeable storage. It is a Western Digital 'My Book' 750 gig connected via firewire. I suppose I could connect it USB, I just figured firewire would be faster.

 

[Padma]

linux-m2hh:/home/bob/Desktop # ./ati-driver-installer-7-x86x86_64.run
bash: ./ati-driver-installer-7-x86x86_64.run: No such file or directory

If this is where the file lives, it should have worked!

Better yet, if I reinstall PCLOS, can you help me with getting PCLOS to see my external hard drive. In Mepis it saw it as removeable storage. It is a Western Digital 'My Book' 750 gig connected via firewire. I suppose I could connect it USB, I just figured firewire would be faster.

I suppose I could try. I'm not as knowledgable as some about those things. I'm still trying to get my system to recognize my card-reader as removable storage. It sees my jump drive that way .... ???

 

[bgast1]

Ok let's stay with SuSe for a bit. I managed to get it to do something in a terminal window but it stopped. I'll try it again and post the results. One thing. It says Launch the Terminal/Application window. Is that the big terminal when you leave X? If so, I forgot the command, or keystrokes to get that. It also says that I must be logged in as Superuser to install the driver.

 

[Padma]

I haven't used Suse ina while, but I would assume the "Terminal/Application Window" would be Konsole (or xterm, or eterm, or whatever terminal they use).

And "su" makes you the superuser in that window.

If you want the non-X-Window terminal, try "CTRL-ALT-F1" ("CTRL-ALT-F7" to get back ). Or, if necessary, just open a Konsole window, do a su, and type "init 3", and wait for it to come back up to the full non-X system.

 

[bgast1]

How long should it take to install the driver? In Windows if was the full blown Catalyst it took a very long time. But when I tried to install the package that didn't give me 3D only took a minute. What does a square cursor mean? Perhaps it is working but I don't know what to look for. The AMD site said that a setup dialog box would be displayed and no such thing came up.

I got the driver installed but I still don't have 3D. I get the same error message as above.

In Ubuntu I had to enter

sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl

 

[bgast1]

Well, late last night I got the driver installed. Still won't give me 3D effects. So I gave up, and decided to play with PCLOS.

I unplugged my external HD from firewire, exchanged cables to USB and PCLOS picked it up immediately. Still treats it as removeable storage, but what do I care, it works.

Set up my video card, set up Beryl, and I have the smoothest running Linux that I have ever had to this date.

Does anyone here have any experience with Emerald? How do you use it to install different themes, and where can you get them? I will probably google this and check the forums but if someone has a quick answer that would be nice too.

Next, looking at multimedia, I know for sure that I will get VLC. That is the only player I know that can play almost every video codec under the sun. Picture and sound isn't always the best but it still works well.

Any suggestions any of you have to make this installation better will be much appreciated. I think I will be sticking with PCLOS for a while. Of all the distros I have tried so far, I like it the best. Haven't tried Fedora yet though, or any of the new live CD versions.