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clarkt@cnsp.com wrote:
What video chip? Do you have more than 2 GB of Memory? I have a laptop with the 200M chip and with 3 GB of memory, the 9.2 driver crashes. Drop back to 2GB and it works.
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Clark, I have 4 Gig on my laptop, I pretty sure the system allocates 128k to video. It's damn hard to tell with the toshiba bios. hwinfo and dmidecode don't add anything useful either. I have picked through the PCS database but the memory and gart size information must be buried in the long numerical sequences. Here is an interesting thread I just stumbled upon: "AMD removes FGLRX 9-1 and 9-2?" http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?p=65055&posted=1#post65055 I just checked the ATI site and they are there -- maybe that was just someone else venting frustration. But you ought to see some of the other "Subject" lines on phoronix from yesterday and today: "Arch Linux Revolts Against ATI Catalyst Driver" "catalyst 9.2 broken amdcccle" ... and my personal favorite: "How long should I wait? I cant handle it no more..." So I don't think it is just openSuSE have difficulty with the ATI Linux driver. Pity really. The had the radeon fglrx driver down pat and then screwed the pooch by thinking they could just drop the code for the 2xxx, 3xxx, and 4xxx series of cards right on top of the old driver in addition to adding the code for crossfire as well. The driver is probably such a fsck'ed up cludge by now it will be months and months before a reasonably working ATI driver appears again. Everyone who is having problems with this driver should take the time and provide constructive feedback to: http://apps.ati.com/linuxDfeedback/ That's the only way this fiasco will ever get fixed... even if it does appear that there is a hard coded redirection of feedback input: http://apps.ati.com/linuxDfeedback/ > /dev/ati_numbnuts/ -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org