Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2417 mails)

["Adam Sailer" <ASailer@xxxxxxx>]

Adam,

        The newer drivers are a lot _faster_ than the older drivers in my
experience. 
If you would like to try the latest 8.47 driver, I have it built for 10.3 for
i386 at:

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/hardware/computers/p35a/fglrx_7_1_0_SUSE1
03-8.471-1.i386.rpm

the 10.3 x68-64 package is available at:

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/hardware/computers/nirvana/fglrx64_7_1_0_
SUSE103-8.471-1.x86_64.rpm

see the sample xorg.conf at:

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/compiz/xorg.conf.compiz.20080221

        If you are installing your own driver, you will need the
kernel-source 
installed so the fglrx.ko kernel module can be built. Also, remember to 
uninstall the old fglrx packages (from runlevel 3 as root) before installing 
the new fglrx package with:

# rpm -e ($rpm -qa | grep fglrx) && rpm -Uvh
fglrx_7_1_0_SUSE103-8.471-1.i386.rpm

(the post-install script for the rpm builds the kernel module against the 
kernel source) Then,

# modprobe fglrx && depmod -A

reboot and you are done

        For a longer version of the howto, see:

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/howto/ati_quick-reference

        The 8.47 driver contains a number of fixes that improve scrolling,
etc. and 
the latest updates to compiz 7.4 are impressive as well. Make sure you have
the 
X11 repository added to your Yast/zypper repositories:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XGL/openSUSE_10.3/

        The just update->all packages->update if a newer version is available
and it 
will pull in the new compiz packages.

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Thanks for the advice =)