Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (340 mails)

[Juan Erbes <jerbes@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/4/20 David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
> > Listmates,
> >
> >       There are 2 issues that need to be addressed regarding the fglrx 
> > driver and
> > the upcoming 11.2 release. Currently in 11.1, there are many laptop cards
> > supposedly "supported" by the ATI driver that crash or hardlock when the 
> > driver
> > is installed. Currently my X1200 is one, the 200 is another from the list 
> > (I'm
> > not sure what the technical card architecture is for the "200"). Suffice it 
> > to
> > say, this is a significant problem for all affected users. The issues that 
> > need
> > to be addressed pre-11.2 are:
> <snip>
> > (2)   Confirm - ATI driver support will be dropped for all R300-R500 ATI 
> > cards
> > post 9-3 driver release (per phoronix.com ATI forum). This is another 
> > *biggie*
> > Novell needs to get its arms around, to again, either incorporate into the
> > installer a way to not install the driver on non-supported hardware or 
> > identify
> > and warn about the lack of support for all R300-R500 cards.
> <snip>
>
> A glimmer of hope form the AMD/ATI web site:
>
> <quote>
>
> AMD has moved a number of DX9 ATI Radeon™ graphics accelerators products to a
> legacy driver support structure.  This change impacts Windows XP, Windows
> Vista, and Linux distributions.  AMD has moved to a legacy software support
> structure for these graphics accelerator products in an effort to better focus
> development resources on future products.
>
> The following products have been moved to the legacy software support 
> structure
> (including Mobile and All-in-Wonder Variants):
>
> ATI Radeon 9500 Series
> ATI Radeon 9550 Series
> ATI Radeon 9600 Series
> ATI Radeon 9700 Series
> ATI Radeon 9800 Series
> ATI Radeon X300 Series
> ATI Radeon X550 Series
> ATI Radeon X600 Series
> ATI Radeon X700 Series
> ATI Radeon X800 Series
> ATI Radeon X850 Series
> ATI Radeon X1050 Series
> ATI Radeon X1300 Series
> ATI Radeon X1550 Series
> ATI Radeon X1600 Series
> ATI Radeon X1650 Series
> ATI Radeon X1800 Series
> ATI Radeon X1900 Series
> ATI Radeon Xpress Series
> ATI Radeon X1200 Series
> ATI Radeon X1250 Series
> ATI Radeon X2100 Series


The latest driver for the Radeon 9200 was 8.28.8        Aug. 18, 2006
        Display Drivers for X.Org 6.8 , and it do'nt works with Opensuse
11.1, because it do'nt supports Xorg 7.4.

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.28.8.html

Regards
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