Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Tuesday February 3 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
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. No, my bet is you had the frame buffer device installed by default. (fbdev) You should have got the radeon driver, but the complete fix may not have been put in place. See "Resolved" 11.1B5 Bug:
??? Does the "fbdev" driver support 3D? 'Cause the driver installed by default when I installed openSUSE 11.1 did 3D. And that originally installed driver still had the sluggish text drawing in Konsole.
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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. The radeon driver should be flawless there.
I'm still uncertain how to go about how to switch from the current driver (from the ATI / AMD on-line repository for openSUSE 11.1) to this "radeon" driver.
Randall Schulz
That's straight forward, All you need to do is run sax2 with: sax2 -r -m 0=radeon Or if that gives you problems, you should be able to simply edit your xorg.conf and replace whatever you have in the 'Driver' statement for your card with radeon and then rmmod whatever you had and then modprobe the radeon driver and then give a depmod -a. I can't recall, but there seems there was once I didn't have the radeon.ko module on my system by default, but it was simple to get and it's been a long time since then. Just check with locate: [00:37 alchemy:/usr/src/packages/SPECS] # locate radeon.ko /lib/modules/2.6.25.20-0.1-default/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko -- 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