On 08/05/2010 02:27 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
You are in luck, the xf86-video-ati driver is in the best shape it has ever been for 11.3 (especially since there is no hope of porting the 11.0 fglrx driver forward for 11.3....)
I suspect your are missing the radeon driver and you are booting into framebuffer graphics. Check that you have the radeon driver installed with:
lsmod | grep radeon
You should see 4-5 instances of it being used in the output. If you don't get all the happy radeon output, chances are you don't have the radeon driver installed (or installed correctly)
My 11.3 box is not up at the moment, but the generic name for the package you will need for the driver is xf86-video-ati....rpm. I don't recall suse's naming convention right off-hand, but you could search your installed packages to see if you have anything radeon or ati related with:
rpm -qa | grep -i "radeon\|ati"
also try the following just in case the naming convention is strange:
rpm -qa | grep -i driver-video
I would do a webpin search for you, but the whole webpin system seems to be broken as hell for all of 11.3.
If you can't find the ati driver (may be in the generic driver package "xorg-x11-driver-video", then look at the output of 'lspci -v' and get the release number for the x1650 (no not 1650, but R430 or R5XX) if the x1650 is an R5XX or R6XX, then you can use the radeonhd driver as well (although I believe the 1650 was still and R4XX card)
REMEMBER: YOU DO NOT NEED AN xorg.conf file. That may be part of your problem if you are using an old xorg.conf file. Since xorg 7.2 X will start with an intelligent set of defaults on its own, and, in fact, if the current kernel is doing KMS early, then you probably do NOT want an xorg unless you have really special needs.
Give those options a try and report back.
I finally got my monitor options to stick by placing the xrandr commands in my xinitrc file, but that only works when you are logged into KDE . It seems I am running the radeon driver, but it is not running very well. With some screen effects running the computer will hang for a few seconds and then resume, then it will turn off composting and it still runs a lot slower than it did under 11.1 So I have no clue as to where to go from here the output of isomod lsmod | grep radeon radeon 792465 2 ttm 55288 1 radeon drm_kms_helper 29179 1 radeon drm 176922 4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper i2c_algo_bit 5572 1 radeon i2c_core 26632 5 i2c_i801,radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit lspci -v 1:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV535 [Radeon X1650 Series] (rev 9e) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Device 2100 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 24 Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at c800 [size=256] Memory at ff8f0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at ff8c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Kernel driver in use: radeon 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV535 [Radeon X1650 Series] (rev 9e) Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Device 2101 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32 Memory at ff8e0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 and rpm -qa |grep -i driver-video xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_20100325_f6c9991-1.13.i586 xorg-x11-driver-video-intel-legacy-2.9.1-1.9.i586 xorg-x11-driver-video-7.5-15.2.i586 xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau-0.0.15_20100401_bfb95cc-1.10.i586 -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is Robert Cunningham Sr. Physics Laboratory Coordinator /RSO -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org