If you have a driver version 2.1.8494 (from standard 11.1 repositories), it is *not* the ATI Catalyst (fglrx) driver. Check with "lsmod | grep fglrx". My *guess* is that you have actually installed the radeon or radeonhd driver which would explain the source of the problem. Report back.
I removed the fglrx driver, went to the ATI site and downloaded/installed the ATI Catalyst driver. All seemed to go OK... tried restarting X... didn't work, so rebooted, and now the computer is caught in a boot loop.. rebooting every time it tries to load X. Going to try to sort that now, to see if I can at least get it to boot to a CLI.
OK, after much weeping and gnashing of teeth, I managed to convince X to start up. Turns out.. since I had a clean install, I forgot to install gcc and the kernel-sources, so the manual install (from the GUI) failed, but did not actually report back any errors.. it just said install was successful... but since no gcc, and no sources, the kernel driver was not built... and well... splat... So installed the kernel-sources and gcc.. reinstalled the ATI catalyst driver from the CLI this time... used sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx to config xorg.conf... init 5 and X started. There is still some strobing/flashing as KDE4 starts up, and also when I launch XBMC, MythTV and various other apps, including KDE4 native apps like the applets in the Configuration. it isn't currently killing performance like before. I wonder if this is a KDE4 thing since this is the first time I've ran KDE4 on this bookshelf/media center PC. I haven't tried Gnome at all on this computer... and when it was running on 11.0 (up until this morning) it was using KDE3. I could switch to Gnome easily enough... the underlying GUI is somewhat irrelevant since it's almost always in XBMC or MythTV. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org