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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=331790

           Summary: Driver installed from official directions
                    (http://en.opensuse.org/ATI) is *not* recommended by AMD
           Product: openSUSE 10.3
           Version: Final
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: X11 3rd Party Driver
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: adamk@xxxxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: sndirsch@xxxxxxxxxx
          Found By: Other


The 8.41 drivers installed from the official fglrx repo (and, hence, the
one-click install) is not recommended by AMD for any non-Radeon HD card.  I
have an PCIe x850, and AMD officially lists 8.40.4 as the recommended driver. 
This driver is, in fact, completely broken on AGP r400/r500 cards (ie. and AGP
x700 like I have at work).  8.41 should only be installed on radeon HD cards
(ie the 2400/2600/2900 cards).  Rumor has it that the next driver release
(8.42) will support all r300, r400, r500, and r600 cards but, till then, there
are different drivers for r300-r500 and r600 cards.

The 8.41.7 driver crashes X on my machine (with the x850), though I can't be
sure that it's due to the fact that 8.41.7 is technically unsupported on my
machine as I have not tried 8.40 yet:

http://68.45.180.45/Xorg.0.log

Adam


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