On Monday 02 April 2007, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
Peter, This card should be well supported under Xorg's native radeon driver. There is no need to use ATI's drivers for this card to get acceptable 3D on your setup, it's a good card and there is no need to replace it at this time unless you need too. If you do need to, then by all means get another ATI card, because most, except for the very latest cards, are supported natively in Xorg. This makes them both convenient and easy to set up using Sax2 in runlevel 3.
Lee & Eberhard,
Thanks for the positive responses, all seems not to be lost.
I really don't want to buy a new card, this one works well for what I want.
From what has been written I just use the native radeon driver that comes with Xorg, and ignore the ATI drivers, correct? I guess I need to un-install these, and then go through sax2 after init 3?
Are there any good howto's out there that will point me in the right direction to do this.
I have always managed to get this card running 3D under SuSE pre 10.*, but I think that it has been through 'luck rather than good judgement'!
Peter
Nothing special to do Peter. Just remove the ATI driver, if installed, drop down to init 3, run sax2, set the 3d on, test it and save it. You could use "sax2 -m 0=radeon" also, if you want to be sure to get the radeon module loaded. I think you'll find it results in very adequate readings from glxgears on that card. regards, Lee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org