On Tuesday 20 October 2009 10:44:40 am Robert P. J. Day wrote:

googling a bit earlier and i ran across this -- a recipe to allegedly get real working support for my ati radeon xpress 200m:

http://en.opensuse.org/ATI_Radeon_Xpress#openSUSE_11.1

i don't have my suse system in front of me at the moment, but i'm curious if any video experts can peruse that short recipe and verify that it seems to make sense. i'll give it a shot the second i get home vuz i'm *really* tired of booting into failsafe. :-)

rday

Robert, I need to know what your 200m is. Please post the output of "lspci -vv" as root. The 200M specification covers a number of cards. The output of lspci will show the actual gpu chipset you have. It should be something like R6xxM, RS6xxM or R7xxM, RS7xxM. That will allow myself or somebody else to tell you what your options are as far as drivers go. I have run opensuse on laptops with ATI video cards since December 2004 and I can tell you they can be tricky to get right. Especially since ATI dropped support for all pre 2400 series cards in March. I'm still running 11.0 on my laptop for the specific reason that I can still use the 8-9 ATI driver which is the last ATI driver with decent performance for my X1200 express card. (8-9 only supports xorg <= 7.3) You can look at the general specs for the 200M at: http://www.amd.com/us/products/notebook/chipsets/radeon-xpress-200M/Pages/at... radeon-express-200m-amd-specs.aspx My best guess without knowing more is that you can only use the 9-3 driver since you have a pre 2400 series chipset. Download the general driver package at: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.2&product=2.4.2.3.11&lang=English Then you can follow my install notes at: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/ati/ati_quick-reference If you have problems with your xorg.conf, just use mine from my laptop. I moved at copy over to my server for you. You can get it here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/ati/xorg.conf.opensuse.20091020 Post back if you run into problems. If things just "won't work" with 11.1, consider downgrading to 11.0. With kde:factory you will still get the latest KDE 4.3.1 (which works very well) or you can use KDE 4.3.2 (still a little buggy with the systray). If you want to automate the process, I wrote a script to install the driver. After you build the new fglrx RPM from the ati driver package, just drop to runlevel 3 with: crtl+alt+F1 (log in as root) init 3 Then execute the following script (as root) in the same directory as the fglrx rpm. The script just does the steps set out in the ../ati_quick- reference page for you. NOTE: give the fglrx rpm with FULL PATH into as the input to the script like this (all on one line): sh fglrx-install /home/david/linux/ati/fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE110-8.593-1.x86_64.rpm Download the script here (saves typing): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/ati/fglrx-install Good luck! -- 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