On 8/10/2010 3:04 PM, Robert Cunningham wrote:
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 .
But will it run Google Earth? I've not yet tried with my Radeon Mobility X1400. Hoping to avoid yet another disappointment I suppose... -- _____________________________________ At one time I had a Real Sig. Its been downsized. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org