Dan Goodman wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
peter nikolic wrote:
On Saturday 04 April 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:
Dave Plater wrote:
From this I think we can conclude that the new driver doesn't work with
11.1 and Peter should either use the older driver you mentioned above or as he mentioned in one of his posts, get an nvidia card. Regards Dave P
Dave,
That's sort of a 'wicky sticket' since Peter is running 11.1. Nothing released prior to December '08 will even run on 11.1... The proverbial rock and a hard place...
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Well i have all but give up on the festering infestation that is ATI , Unfortunatley i can not afford to change the Laptop at the moment and doubt i will be able to for some time (disabled so funds ar scarce althou i do get a bit now and then but even that goes on gas and electric )
But you can be dambed sure when i do replace it ATI will not even get within a mile of the list of machines to look at .
It is just a crying pity that AMD bought into such a heap of pure crap as ATI had they gotten Nvidia we would be ok but ATI has always been suspect to say the least well now we got the proof no support from them AT ALL typical well all i can say is lets hope windows 7 goes tits up then there main source of income has gone then they GOT to start getting real .
Cheers all fior trying to assist roll o9n the day i can afford a new lappy Nvidia rules .
Pete .
Pete,
If I was in your situation (Well, I sort of am, I have 2 laptops with ATI chipsets: a 9600 and X1300), I would downgrade to 11.0 (or I would just spring for the $50 new laptop hard drive and load 11.0). Then I would download the 8-9 driver from the prior releases page at the ati site:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/previous/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx
Then follow the install instructions. Both laptops I have do wonderfully with the 8-9 driver, 100% stable, handle compiz with no problems, and have the best performance of any ATI driver I have ever loaded.
As I mentioned in my prior post, the 11.1 folks are just out of luck if they have ATI driver problems because *nothing* prior to the 8-12 driver will even install on 11.1.
Good luck, and I concur. No laptop or desktop I purchase will ever have ATI in it again. Pitty really, ATI did put out some really good stuff. The 9800 series and X850 All in Wonder cards were screamers. Too bad all Linux support for the cards is now dropped by ATI.
It really leaves you scratching your head as to why a graphics card company would intentionally alienate a segment of its user base, especially in this economy. NVidia, at least has the corporate common sense to provide a legacy driver that works quite well.
Well, ATI lost me years ago (think Gateway AT era), when they posted competitive numbers for their newest and fastest card, which I spec'ed in my purchase. But the driver was always unstable. When I upgraded the driver and clocked the performance, the new driver had simply stepped down the speed to half of what it had in the first (and benchmarked in PC Mag) driver.
And I have watched (but never more directly participated) in their treatment of their customers.
Caveat emptor.
Dan G.
Amen, Let's all pray (and lend a hand) to Matthias, Rafal, Alex and the rest of the guys doing great work with the radeonhd project to develop a viable open Source alternative to the fglrx driver. The project can use all the testing and involvement we can give. OpenSuSE, thankfully, is quite supportive of the project. The mailing list is: radeonhd@opensuse.org I would recommend that anybody caught in this ATI created fiasco test and/or use the latest radeonhd snapshot by downloading the radeonhd driver from the radeonhd git repository and then compiling drm/mesa and the radeonhd driver on you own system. There have been several code changes in the power handling parts of the driver in the past couple of weeks that improve power control that is crucial for laptops. See: radeonhd page http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd git repository install http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd%3AINSTALL The more people that can contribute by testing and providing feedback to the developers - the sooner we will have a good open-source driver for the hundreds of thousands if not millions of laptops with ATI abandoned hardware. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org