There’s two way, if possible disable the intel gpu part in the bios (some hardware allow that, some not). Then you will use only the fglrx part, but this will drain a bit more your battery.

Otherwise Sebastian has a nice script collecting all the related stuff, that can be send to him
(freespacer on irc, or check his blog )
like running su -c ‘sh makerpm-amd-12.2.sh -ur’ and posting back the given url or result

What you should do, is follow the steps as explained on http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=6680

So for 12.1, change any reference to 12.1, and change the url to the repo as well (see Bruno’s comment of march 27)

I followed your instructions, namely adding the 64 bit repository to zypper (which matches the distribution architecture) and installing from there. It seems I am now getting a segmentation fault when I try to launch Xorg using this driver, as well as a line suggesting this is the incorrect driver. Perhaps the spec sheet on the Lenovo U400 is wrong? Here are the offending lines from the Xorg log:

[ 16.331] (II) AMD Video driver is running on a device belonging to a group targeted for this release
[ 16.331] (II) AMD Video driver is signed
[ 16.331] (II) fglrx(0): pEnt->device->identifier=0x8056f0
[ 16.331] (EE) fglrx(0): Unspported by intel driver! vendor id 0x8086, device id 0x116
[ 16.331] (II) pEnt->device->identifier=(nil)
[ 16.331] (II) fglrx(0): === [xdl_x750_atiddxPreInit] === begin
[ 16.332] (II) fglrx(0): PowerXpress: Discrete GPU is selected.
[ 17.589] (II) fglrx(0): PowerXpress: Diagnostic output from /usr/lib64/fglrx/switchlibGL:
Switch to AMD

[ 17.594]
Backtrace:
[ 17.594] 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x4a67d8]
[ 17.594] 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x63c19) [0x463c19]
[ 17.594] 2: /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x7f550a4a1000+0x32a50) [0x7f550a4d3a50]
[ 17.594] 3: /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x7f550a4a1000+0x35c368) [0x7f550a7fd368]
[ 17.594] Segmentation fault at address 0x7f550a7fd368
[ 17.594]
Fatal server error:
[ 17.594] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

Do you have any suggestions? I’m sort of at a loss when it comes to these sorts of issues. Thanks!

So the best way for you should be : use the .run to uninstall all what it can have installed.
Remove any /etc/ati you could have.

check if the one-click as installed a repository with
zypper lr -d
If the one click doesn’t work you could do it manually easily by issuing
zypper ar -f -c -n “FGLRX” http://geeko.ioda.net/mirror/ati/openSUSE_11.3 FGRLX

You should have
FLGRX pointing to http://geeko.ioda.net/mirror/ati/openSUSE_11.3 as url
then in console mode after a reboot, add in the boot line : nomodeset blacklist=radeon 3
and use zypper in fglrx_xpic_SUSE113 (if you are 32bits) or
zypper in fglrx64_xpic_SUSE113 under x86_64 installation
should do the trick.

In case of error have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to find any clue of trouble.

I’m trying to install the video drivers for openSUSE 11.3 onto a lenovo U400, which according to the specs has a AMD Radeon™ HD6470M video card and requires the 64 bit catalyst 12.2 / fglrx 8.950 driver.

You might have made a typo on your “one click install” link, as it doesn’t work for me. Did you mean to fix this?

I was hoping this would successfully install, as compiling following the README included with the driver from AMD’s website leaves me with a system that hangs when trying to start xorg.

Thanks!