suserocks@bryen.com wrote:
Bryen wrote:
I had thought I had an older graphics card in my system that wouldn't support Desktop Effects. Yes, you do, just like me (9200 SE here)
But I discovered with glee that I indeed had a
Radeon 9200 which is on the support list in the wiki. Well, 3D is somehow supported for things like tuxracer but nothing at all in regard to desktop effects. So I proceeded to do the one-click install of the ATI proprietary driver. But nothing changed. Sax2 still saw the old driver and wouldn't let me change to the new driver. As you can easily see on: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon-prer200.html
The ATI driver for this card supports xorg 7.1 as the highest supported version. Depending on your version of SUSE, you might have it and then it will work.
For me, 7.2 is what I have and therefore I only get the "native 3D performance from the open source driver".
As NVidia's driver policy is much more "tolerant" in regard of support for older hardware, one thing is sure for me: It does not matter to me what good things they will do under hte direction of AMD in regard to Opensource.
This will definitely be the last ATI that I bought. Luckily I do not care about desktop effects. I tried them on another computer and did not find any productive enhancements for my style of work.
Going into Yast2 > Hardware > Hardware Information > Display, I see that the new driver is listed as (secondary.)
How do I make this driver primary?
I am afraid, you can't. ;-))
Kind regards Eberhard
Eberhard, thanks for the feedback. Ok, so if I just rpm -e the new driver, will I get back to my original state? Rebooting my machine, I lost all my graphics capabilities and now am relegated to just command line.
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in general and as far as I know, the two drivers can sort of coexist.
You just need to change your xorg.conf First back it up to another name Then replace "fglrx" with "radeon" (without the quotes). That did it for me. good luck and kind regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org