On Wednesday 08 July 2009 12:11:37 am Clayton wrote:
In that case, yes, I get I guess what you call strobing.
Well, if you are getting it, you would certainly notice... the whole screen flashes like a strobe light... rapid flashing.
Mine isn't the same then. The strobing I'm talking about is only in the video window itself (like in the mplayer window) I have gotten so used to using the ATI driver packages (before ATI disowned all its "new legacy" card owners) that I had written a script to automate the process. The basics were to: 1. confirm kernel-source 2. drop to runlevel 3 3. rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep -i fglrx) 4. sh ATI..driver-installer --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE110-AMD64 5. rpm -Uvh fglrx-nameOfNewPkg.rpm 6. watch the compile output from the post-install script 7. reboot Then on kernel update: fglrx-kernel-build.sh That was pretty much it for driver management. Now, I just have the rpm for 8-9 save for both x86 and x86-64 that I install on new boxes (limited to 11.0 - no ATI driver support for the x1200 in 11.1 or later due to xorg 7.4 and the crippled ATI driver in the 8-10 through 9-3 releases. Now it's just try and help with the radeonhd project to hopefully have a working driver for my laptop in the future. Just wait until 11.2 is released and all the laptop users realize there is no fglrx support for their hardware and -- the radeonhd driver will just about set their laptops on fire with gpu temperature increase. (at the very least it will fry your nuts if you actually put your laptop on your lap) But, the radeonhd folks are really doing a great job and making headway with gpu chipset powerdown code. The same level of cooling as the fglrx driver is still along way off and performance is still way down compared to the fglrx driver. (KDE4 Desktop Effects will shut down compositing and kill Desktop Effects due to radeonhd driver slowness on my hardware) So performance impacts on KDE4 is very real. All we can do is help support the radeonhd project in any way we can to help get that driver up to speed in time for 11.2 Anything is possible -- I never thought KDE4 would be usable by 11.2 either... -- 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