On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 15:44 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 03 December 2009 03:19:23 pm Dean Hilkewich wrote:
John, the 9.3 Catalysts will not compile on any kernel newer then 2.6.27 (or with some hacking up to 2.6.29) but will not compile for 2.6.31 kernels. You have two real choices here, run openSUSE 11.1 with the ATI blobs or run the opensource drivers on 11.2. Heck even on non-legacy ATI cards (2000+) support for 11.2 was just added in the 9.11 Catalysts.
Dean
I'm pretty much stuck with the open source radeon driver at this time which means no google earth, and totally unusable 3D effects in KDE.
I agree about google earth. I filed a bug at http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559871 Nothing much has happened yet. Glad (in a left-handed sort of way) that the google earth issue is not mine alone. However, I have no trouble with the KDE effects via the radeonhd driver. I have a FireGL V3300, which IMHO is too new to have been dropped by ATI. Let me qualify 'no trouble': 1) there are a few artifacts sometimes. They go away rather fast and are not really a problem. 2) In some editing widgets (I think gnome-based) the cursor often goes away. I see this in evolution and firefox (e.g., editing a Trac wiki page). This is the main issue I have. Editing is a real PITA when you have no cursor part of the time. Aside from that, radeonhd in 11.2 has made great strides over that in 11.1. I wonder how much further it will go without docs. It is amazing it has gone so far as it has as a basically reverse-engineering effort. Be sure to upgrade your radeonhd from the one in the 11,2 distro. The distro one crashes the system when KDE effects are on. The updated one does not.
Its a toss up which is more unlikely, the opensource driver becoming capable or AMD fixing the 9.3 driver.
Luckily this is a Dell 9400 laptop, and I can swap the video out for something better supported, which I may well do.
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