Suse video driver question HELP

[mdchesne]

solved resurrecting old xorg.conf file problem, now on to the next: see next post

 

[Zelmo3]

Look in your /etc/X11 directory for a file called xorg.conf.old or something similar to indicate a backup file. Rename it to xorg.conf, and the next time you startx it will use that file.
You should be able to make a few minor changes to the backup file to make it use the new drivers. Namely, in the Device section, the driver should be "fglrx" instead of ati or radeon or vga or whatever it was before. Then check that there's a DRI section with 666 permissions (usually at the end of the file) and that the Modules section is loading dri and glx.

 

[mdchesne]

ah yes, thanks. xorg.config.saxsave was the old one. replaced it with the modified one and badabing, i'm back in suse.
Now I have to see what I did wrong while following ATI's Online Instructions the last time


EDIT
Ok, so I'm using ./ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run command to open the file (apprently ATI hasn't updated it's instructions since 8.18 came out so I edited to cmd to: ./ati-driver-installer-8.18.8-x86_64.run which is the filename that was downloaded form the ATI site. even logged in as root, I still get "Permission denied"
I may be new to linux, but isn't root the ultimate privaledge? As if there are certain features that must be enabled per user, how to I set root as a super user? (why isn't it already?)
I think last time, to get around this, i used sh ati-driver-installer-8.18.8-x86_64.run to open it. m'bad?

online instructions

 

[Zelmo3]

The file probably isn't executable--a lot of downloaded binaries come that way. You need to chmod +x ati-driver-installer-8.18.8-x86_64.run to make it executable, then run it as root and you should be good to go.

 

[xtknight]

Put sh before the name of the file.

While root does have access to everything, it may not by default. It always has the power to give itself power though.