On Monday February 2 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday February 2 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
The driver I'm running is from the ATI / AMD repository (http://www2.ati.com/suse/11.1/) and the full version string is "8.561_2.6.27.7_9.1-1.1". Is that the 9.1 driver you refer to? It kind of looks like it is.
How come "9.1" occurs in the package name but 8.12 does not yet this is the 8.12 driver?
No, 8.561 is the 8-12 driver with the know broken 3D issue. If you want 9-1, (which is the 8.573-1 version) you need to download the package installer. The link to the driver download is:
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati -driver-installer-9-1-x86.x86_64.run
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I've already built the driver, but held off using it in the hope that ATI / AMD would release openSUSE 11.1 versions, and a few days after I built it, they did and I used theirs.
I know it shouldn't make any difference, but it does??? You can read through the script easily and see what it does. (basically just removes any existing fglrx driver, does a prep of the kernel source, then installs the rpm which has a post-install script that compiles the kernel module against the source)
If you install from the ATI package DISABLE THE ATI REPOSITORY IN YAST OR ZYPPER. Otherwise you will pull the 8-12 driver back in on every update and there is no way to deselect the older driver from being installed in yast.
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Is the Radeon driver in the standard distribution? The only packages
I was going to list packages found by searching in YaST for "radeon" but I guess I got distracted and didn't finish doing so.
The radeon driver is part of the openSuSE release ...
So the driver that was in use before I configured the ATI / AMD repository (which did 3D) is the "radeon" driver you refer to? The reason I installed the ATI / AMD driver was the poor text drawing that got this whole thread started.
The question remains though, Why the crappy performance out of every ATI Linux driver release since 8-10? ...
It is perplexing an disappointing. Does Novell's Bugzilla have a voting system? If so, I'll vote for you tickets if you point me to them.
I don't think so. ...
Give the 9-1 driver a try, it should have corrected the broken 3D stuff for 11.1. However, on 11.0 I still see the system slowness that was introduced last October and hasn't been fixed yet. ...
3D isn't a big deal for me. I have a faster machine with a much better 3D card (an nVidia) that I use for 3D apps. The slow text drawing in Konsole is pretty annoying though—that's what I'd like to rectify. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org