John Andersen wrote: [snip]
"Joe user" would use the pre-built packages. From what I understand, they will continue working without needing a recompile, since the affected function was an inline function before, so the code is already inside the driver. As far as I know it will continue working without needing any change (but I don't currently have any ATI cards, so I can't back this up from personal experience, it is just what I have heard reported).
Anders
The prebuilt ATI packages wont install either Anders. That leaves you with their Driver Loader packages. The driver loader package ATI distributes builds drivers on the fly and it fails too. If I roll back one kernel, it will (maybe) build.
Currently using what they call Catalyst 10.9 on 2.6.34.7-0.2-desktop. It builds and works, though I see it as a regression. Drag a window and it smears really bad and there are some artifacts affecting scrolling in Kontact and Konsole that I've seen so far. Killing the app when this happens and restarting it usually makes things good again. 10.9 is very noticeably slower than 10.8. Think I will go back to 10.8 until next month.
Joe user would be stuck using the open source drivers and forgo compositing and run it as a 2D card. (Grousing all the while).
Just using the HD 3300 onboard IGP at this point to examine ATI's Linux support. While the drivers have received increasing amounts of effort on ATI's part my particular bone to pick is this: I can have either 3D acceleration or Xinerama dual monitors, but not both. Nvidia's TwinView provides both. So for me it's looking more and more like ATI is out; the next card will be Nvidia. -Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org