Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I'm running 11.1. According to http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Hardware my chipset lost support as of the 8.40.4 release of the driver. So I guess I would need one from before that. Any suggestions about a good release?
Uuhh -- your screwed... Also, What is you card again?? You have to be careful with what you are calling the driver version and driver release. ATI Driver Releases are named by [ 1 digit year ]-[2 digit months]. Example 8-12 Release is the December 2008 release, but the 'version' was 8.561. The mostly track the following: Rel. Vers. 8-8 8.522 8-9 8.532 8-10 8.542 .... 9-3 8.593 I remember the 8.40.4 driver and I think that was the Jan or Feb 08 release and it was one of the first drivers that worked with 10.3. You can check details at: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/previous/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx Just check the Release notes for the driver to see what xorg version is supported. None of the ATI drivers pre 8-11 release (November 2008) support xorg 7.4 so you are out of luck. That's the basis for the whole hubub over the state of the ATI driver up through the 9.3 release (When ATI dropped all support for most of it cards) because there were still a whole lot of cards out there that the 9.3 driver doesn't even work for and now ATI has abandoned its entire customer base that bought its video cards in all but the past two years (even some of those have been abandoned). That's why, at least for my hardware, there is no upgrade path to 11.1 for my laptop with an ATI card -- no driver support. I'm working with the radeon driver on my Arch install on the box, but so far other than simple 2D (which it is fine for) nothing else works. That means no compiz, etc....
I have just installed Linux on the box in question, so I have not fiddled a lot. But I am surprised that even things like Xvideo do not seem to work. The module is loaded. The X log file makes no complaint. xdpyinfo lists:
XVideo
But xvinfo tells:
X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 no adaptors present
Also, one of the tests for indirect rendering seems to be that glxinfo does not list:
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
which mine does. This is from http://en.opensuse.org/Ati#Installation_-_Get_and_Install_ATI_Drivers in the section called Testing.
Sheesh! I hope we don't have to start building X/dri/mesa by hand again just to get hardware to work. I haven't done that since 10.3 and I don't want to do it again. It wasn't that bad. The most painful part was just learning how to do it for the first time. (Wait a minute... is this really 2009! or did we somehow go back a decade in time?, wait.. reality check..., fatter, 3 kids, no vacation in 4 years..., nope it is definitely 2009 all right!) The ATI middle-finger to its older card holders will probably be looked at as one of the biggest setbacks for Linux's migration to a mainstream desktop alternative for the next several years. Just stop and think for a moment of the sheer number of users that are left without a realistic migration path to an X desktop now. This is especially acute since the new desktops like KDE4, etc. rely on advanced card capabilities.... What on earth could cause ATI to just drop all support for a majority of its cardholders??... I wonder... Ah, screw it, I don't care anymore, I've already made the change to buying NVidia exclusively and my ATI cards will filter their way out of my systems once and for all in the near future ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org