Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1840 mails)

[John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 03 December 2009 09:21:37 am John Andersen wrote:
> On Thursday 03 December 2009 01:03:39 am Fred A. Miller wrote:
> > If this has been posted already, then I missed it....SORRY! Earlier
> > tonight, I added http://www2.ati.com/suse/11.2/ to the repositories on a
> > client laptop I mentioned here about a week ago that has the ATI HD-3100
> > chipset. I installed the site that covers that series, rebooted into
> > init 3, ran sax2, saved the new config., and then issued init 5.
> > Acceleration and 3D now work! Thanks to whomever in the openSUSE
> > community or Novel who got things moving at ATI!
> >
> > Fred
>
> Great news Fred.  I hope it includes drivers for all the cards that used to
>  work with the ATI because even tho some of them were on ATIs site, they
>  wouldn't build under 11.2.
>
> David Rankin will be happy to hear this if it works.  I'm trying mine now.

Don't bother with this if you have a Radeon model less than 2000.
It STILL broken. fglrx still detects xorg 7.1 when you are actually running 
7.4, 
and fails to load.

Hopeless bunch of bozos those AMD guys. 



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