On Tuesday 17 December 2013 21.34:10 Juan Erbes wrote:
2013/12/17 Bruno Friedmann
On Monday 16 December 2013 14.36:25 Juan Erbes wrote:
What's happened with the AMD video drivers?
On the Opensuse website, the link for the ATI/AMD video drivers points to the 11.4 version, but for Nvidia is for the 13.1 version: http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories#ATI_video_drivers
Funky there's a link to the SDB:ATI with then propose all the alternative. :-)
The informations are normally up to date, once wiki review occurs.
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Very good!
Now i see You are the packager of the fglrx driver! I'm the one who package the work done by Sebastian Siebert and offer the hosting of resulting rpm
How works the installer of the fglrx driver? Quick the same way as the nvidia one, the rpm as requirement (kernel-devel + all tools needed to compile the .ko)
The .ko is compiled on your computer. and recreated if the kernel change (Until it break)
The last time I tryed to install the fglrx driver from a opensuse non oficial repo, they was a script which started to download the complete kernel source, when really are necessary to install the catalyst driver, only the kernel headers (kernel-devel). At that time, I had a dsl connection 512 kbits / sec, and now I have 1 mbit. Imagine, with a slow connection, anytime I upgrade the kernel, I must to upgrade de kernel source, and waiting hours for that update.
For now, I continue installing the Catalyst driver. ? Catalyst is FGLRX Regards, Juan
Now the situation is a bit complex. For owner of HD2xx-HD4xx there was a flgrx-legacy driver but which is not maintained anymore (no changes in 1.5 year) and it doesn't work with openSUSE 12.3 & 13.1 So for those users the free radeon drivers is the only one alternative, but good news, on newer version it offer better performance than the old legacy. (I've read people playing with Steam) For the HD5xx+ chipset : normally we get a stable driver but AMD did release a new version since 13.4 which is totally incompatible with recent kernel and xorg. They've made a beta9 last month. My concern was beside the fact its proprietary, its a beta version. So I opened a new amd-fglrx-beta repository for brave people. After the 13.1 release, several people report to me that the beta was stable enough, and asked me if it's possible to "release" it under the stable repo. That's what I've done, until the new release of fglrx (expected in Decembre, but well we'll see if)
PS: You are put in place for novice users when trying to install the latest version of opensuse, and when they want to install the proprietary driver AMD / ATI to-use applications such as Google Earth, but when they go to the page for additional repos These are the drivers for the Nvidia latest version of opensuse are only available.
You point me a new page, in the wiki, I've forgotten it exist :-)
What will think these new users? The page in unmaintained . You only give support for nVidia proprietary drivers? For the moment I've a small doubt :-) I'm using SuSE since version 6.3
Then I will give you a answer : if you don't help to change the world, who will do it then? The page is a wiki, you seem to be a long time user, just jump and try to fix it (don't worry it will be reviewed) It's perfect to discuss here about it, and then start to act. So please propose a change by modifying the page, asking feedback to new users if you know some. What they expect to find here etc... Any small changes done by yourself, will be a big gain to everybody. -- Bruno Friedmann openSUSE Member GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org