[Bug 331790] New: Driver installed from official directions (http://en. opensuse.org/ATI) is *not* recommended by AMD
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=331790 Summary: Driver installed from official directions (http://en.opensuse.org/ATI) is *not* recommended by AMD Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: X11 3rd Party Driver AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: adamk@voicenet.com QAContact: sndirsch@novell.com Found By: Other The 8.41 drivers installed from the official fglrx repo (and, hence, the one-click install) is not recommended by AMD for any non-Radeon HD card. I have an PCIe x850, and AMD officially lists 8.40.4 as the recommended driver. This driver is, in fact, completely broken on AGP r400/r500 cards (ie. and AGP x700 like I have at work). 8.41 should only be installed on radeon HD cards (ie the 2400/2600/2900 cards). Rumor has it that the next driver release (8.42) will support all r300, r400, r500, and r600 cards but, till then, there are different drivers for r300-r500 and r600 cards. The 8.41.7 driver crashes X on my machine (with the x850), though I can't be sure that it's due to the fact that 8.41.7 is technically unsupported on my machine as I have not tried 8.40 yet: http://68.45.180.45/Xorg.0.log Adam -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #1 from Adam Kirchhoff
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Stefan Dirsch
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--- Comment #3 from Stefan Dirsch
Created an attachment (id=176785) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=176785) [details] Xorg log file.
Uploaded Xorg.0.log as an attachment.
I've seen this before. It seemed to be a configuration issue, since it didn't happen when using aticonfig. Unfortunately I needed to gave up on investigating this issue, since this was simply not possibe via Bugzilla without access to a machine with such a card. :-( Unfortunately I don't have a X850 card for testing available ... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #4 from Adam Kirchhoff
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--- Comment #5 from Adam Kirchhoff
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--- Comment #6 from Stefan Dirsch
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