Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1839 mails)

[Tejas Guruswamy <masterpatricko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/09/10 17:41, John Andersen wrote:
> On 9/22/2010 4:25 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
>   
> > The raedon driver does work for many of us, myself included, so this has
> > to be one of those "devil in the details" of your configuration, and
> > unless they are sorted out the enhancements that Will Stephenson talks
> > of will not be available to you.
> >     
> It sort of works.  But its dog slow.
> Google earth is barely usable.  Gaming is out. And the ATI distributed
> driver packages no longer install.  The lower numbered Mobility Radeon
> chipsets are pretty much dependent on Mesa, and its pathetic.
>   
Yeah, the RPMs in the ati driver repository are broken, and the ati
driver installer you download directly from the website is a mess.
If it helps you, I posted a howto build the RPMs using the OBS instead
Its a bit more bandwidth intensive than compiling it yourself, but it
results in a cleaner package - the same quality as the ati repository
but up-to-date and working.
I did this for the recent 10.9 (8.771) driver release and have been
enjoying life since.
http://masterpatricko.blogspot.com/2010/09/building-ati-fglrx-rpms-for-opensuse.html

Regards,
Tejas
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