Hiya,

I have just installed Suse v10 on my PC. When it installed it didn't install the correct version of my graphics card driver but when I ran Suse Watcher for the first time it found the correct version and installed it (i have an ati x800xt platinum).

My problem is that when I open Yast and look at the hardware configuration there are two drivers now - the original one and the new one with '(Secondary)' appearing next to it. I presume that the original one is still being used because the graphics aren't working as well as they should.

What do i have to do to remove the original driver and make the system use the new one?

Ta

Welcome to the whole issue of Linux ATI drivers ...

I think that SUSE ships with a basic ATI driver, and then SUSEWatcher will offer to download a non-GPL one, which should work better. However, ATI cards are known to be problematic on Linux.

Problematic isn't the right word. Difficult is. It isn't that they have issues. It is that is it tough to get them working at their best. Especially 3d enabled. The official Drivers from ATI do not come with SuSE, and as these are the only ones which all 3d, and therefore gaming and screensavers...you have to install them seperately, and they are at their best picky as hell about install. At their worst, they can cause some headaches, but not in just basic functionality, only in getting the mesas to go away and the real ATIs to allow DRI and other such things to get you 3d.

hmm, so is there a version of linux that works well with my (x800xt) graphics card ?

Version of linux has nothing to do with it. ATI being far less than useful when it comes to their software and support for linux does. None of them are really smooth because ATI just doesn't care about linux enough yet.