Hi,
I'm glad to tell that my latest update to the current 12.1 (Goldmaster?) finally does boot without 'nomodeset' on my Asus M4A89 GTD Pro/USB3 motherboard based machine. That is, radeonhd and Gnome3/Gnome shell works with hardware acceleration on AMD 890 GX graphics. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717377
Rgds, Terje J. Hanssen