Factory, I haven't heard anything since the discussion in June concerning any hope of having a fglrx driver in 11.2 for pre-2400 Series ATI cards. The discussion left off with the reality that there probably would be no fglrx driver for pre-2400 cards. If this is the case, then any one running the pre-2400 series card will be unable to enable compositing, or will have compositing spontaneously shut down when running the radeon driver. The radeonhd driver is somewhat better for 1200-2400 Series users as compositing can be sustained for all but cube rotation, but with very poor performance and occasional shutdowns. X1600+ cards should be fine with the radeonhd driver, but X1300 and lower card users (most laptop users) will experience problems. The fglrx driver offers a 600% performance increase over the radeon or radeonhd driver and is fantastic with the older cards. I can't recall the exact details, but IIRC, fglrx driver support only extended to xorg 7.4 with the 8-10, through 9-3 drivers packages (in reality that means 9-3 because most of the 8-10 to 9-2 releases were so broken they caused many laptops to reboot on kdm start). So unless someone has made progress on either patching libraries to work with the older fglrx driver or gotten some kind of concession from AMD to release a legacy driver capable of supporting the xorg that come with 11.2 (1.6 I guess), there are going to be some surprised/disappointed kde4 users. If the reality is that there will be no driver, then SuSE should drop a release note (somewhere??) about the potential compositing problems that have been experienced and are not unexpected for users moving from the fglrx driver to either the radeon or radeonhd driver. I think it should probably go in something like the README-KDE4.SuSE. I don't think anybody would ever think to look for kde4 issues in the driver README's themselves. If anybody has any good news on this front, please let us know. P.S., I guess it was time for a new nvidia gfxcard based laptop anyway ;-) -- 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-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org