Listmates, ATI, cc:Stefan: I have downloaded, built and installed the 8-12 release (version 8.561) of the fglrx driver on my Toshiba P205D laptop running openSuSE 11.0. The driver packages builds and installs just fine from the ati-installer: ati-driver-installer-8-12-x86.x86_64.run Also, the driver now supports 11.1, so I presume it will build fine there too. Building results in the rpm: fglrx64_7_1_0_SUSE110-8.561-1.x86_64.rpm which builds the fglrx.ko module against the kernel source just fine and installs with no errors. That is where the good news ends. For my laptop with the radeon 1200/1300 mobile card, the performance of the 8-10, 8-11, and the 8-12 drivers is just terrible compared to the 8-8 and 8-9 drivers. Immediately before installing the 8-12 driver I was running the 8-9 driver and dumped glxgears frame rates to compare, again, against the new 8-12 driver. With the 8-9 driver: 23:43 alchemy:~> glxgears 4889 frames in 5.0 seconds = 977.692 FPS 4870 frames in 5.0 seconds = 973.831 FPS With the 8-12 driver: 23:59 alchemy:~> glxgears 3021 frames in 5.0 seconds = 604.191 FPS 2613 frames in 5.0 seconds = 522.544 FPS 2614 frames in 5.0 seconds = 522.795 FPS WTF? Applications are "visibly" slower as well. That is nearly a 50% decrease in performance. I don't know what has happened to the fglrx driver, but it hasn't been right since the 8-9 release. Back to the 8-9 release and all is well. Stefan, if you still have a contact at AMD, would you pass this along? I would bug it with novell, but we both know that would an absolute waste of time. -- 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