Hi Walter, all, walter harms wrote:
Joerg Bruehe schrieb:
Hi all,
recently, the company got me a new machine with a 6-core AMD Phenom II, it has the AMD 890 GX chipset which includes Radeon HD 4290 graphics.
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I tried ATI's proprietary "Catalyst" drivers, all three versions 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6: As soon as I installed one, I got trouble in "bash" - file name completion by tab was affected (needed one extra "tab" hit), and prompts after command execution were displayed only if after I used the keyboard. I took this to mean there are severe incompatibilities and fell back on the vesa driver.
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They claim that this test is done with the Catalyst driver: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_hd4290&num=1
Yes, I've seen that article. I've also seen one in the Ubuntu wiki, giving detailed installation notes (in German): http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/howto-ati-radeon-hd-4290-auf-amd-890gx-pro... So I know the driver exists and is working for some, just not for me. For me, the driver worked in so far as that I could install it, and it produced the image correctly. But as I was maintaining my various xorg.conf* files, I did cd /etc/X11 ls -l xo<TAB> and did not get that expanded to ls -l xorg.conf unless I hit TAB a second time. After doing this and adding the '*', I got the files displayed, but then typically didn't get a prompt unless I input some character (a blank, or a cursor movement). I noticed this effect with all three versions of the catalyst driver, and all three times it was gone on uninstalling it - which was enough for me to declare this combination unsuitable. My kernel is 2.6.26-2-amd64 on a SMP CPU (6-core), so the drivers may easily work with different kernels. My hope here is to get a hint about some variant of the "radeon" driver that supports this chipset, but as the chip seems to be rather new, I know the chances are limited. Any hint? Jörg -- Joerg Bruehe - persoenliche Aeusserung / speaking only for himself mailto:joerg.bruehe@web.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xorg+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-xorg+help@opensuse.org