Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (600 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:46:51PM +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
> On 06/10/09 02:29, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > * Refilwe Seete <r.seete@xxxxxxxxx> [10-05-09 18:26]:
> > > On October 5, 2009 17:40:53 Greg KH wrote:
> > > > As you are using nvidia's closed source kernel module, nothing that any
> > > > of us here can help you out with, sorry :(
> > >
> > > Try the beta release of the nvidia drivers, I haven't had any trouble with 
> > > them thus far.
> >
> > I had before, but the 190.18.*.  It had problems for me.
> >
> > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_190.32.html
> >
> > This one only lasted 12 minutes.
> >
> > > But moving forward, Greg is right.  
> >
> > Yes, crying shame that nvidia has the best linux supported cards and the
> > least collaboration.
> >
> > I finally dropped back to the 188.18.31 and it has held for several
> > hours.  If it dosen't work, I have several older drivers....
>
> There is also
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.36-pkg2.run.
> I haven't read the README file, but I think your card should be supported.
> NVidia has always been very quick to respond to reported problems. Using
> the forum I have always found an answer quickly and that's been over
> several years and all the kernel changes.
> You want to try getting something like radeonhd working on some chipsets
> like AMD's Xpress 1250 or Radeon 9600 I have in a couple of laptops,
> sometimes you can, sometimes you cannot.

These are R3xx/R4xx chipsets. radeonhd does not support anything smaller than
R5xx. For Xpress 1250 and 9600 you need to rely on the radeon driver.

Best regards,
Stefan

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