ATI Radeon 9600 support in openSUSE 11.2

[blnl]

I'm a bit confused, not able to follow the discussion completely.

If I understand correctly, the Radeon 9600 will be supported in new releases of openSUSE.
However, fglrx will not be supported any more, which is required for desktop effects.
So in order to get the desktop effects working in openSUSE 11.1 (and later) I need to install fglrx, which is provided by ATI/AMD.

Is this correct?

[Akoellh]

Originally Posted by blnl

If I understand correctly, the Radeon 9600 will be supported in new releases of openSUSE.
However, fglrx will not be supported any more,

Correct.

Originally Posted by blnl

which is required for desktop effects.

Wrong.

Originally Posted by blnl

So in order to get the desktop effects working in openSUSE 11.1 (and later) I need to install fglrx, which is provided by ATI/AMD.

Is this correct?

No.

[Cloddy]

Akoellh wrote:

>
> blnl;2058825 Wrote:
>>
>> If I understand correctly, the Radeon 9600 will be supported in new
>> releases of openSUSE.
>> However, -fglrx- will not be supported any more,
>
> Correct.
>
> blnl;2058825 Wrote:
>>
>> which is required for desktop effects.
>
> Wrong.
>
> blnl;2058825 Wrote:
>>
>> So in order to get the desktop effects working in openSUSE 11.1 (and
>> later) I need to install fglrx, which is provided by ATI/AMD.
>>
>> Is this correct?
>
> No.
>
>

Then it's somewhat unfortunate that 11.2 produces error messages saying it
can't find fglrx.

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[blnl]

Now I'm totally lost.

If the Radeon 9600 is supported and 'fglrx' is not required for desktop effects, why do I get the flowing warning in openSUSE 11.1 when I enable desktop defects:

Desktop effects are not supported on your current hardware configuration.

By the way, in openSUSE 11.0 desktop effects work out of the box.

[sunscape]

Don't install fglrx... you can use the opensource drivers as was posted in comment #2.

[Cloddy]

sunscape wrote:

>
> Don't install fglrx... you can use the opensource drivers as was posted
> in comment #2.
>
>

But we'll have to wait for the 11.2 version to be published. Mind you, I
hope that the default one will be fixed soon so that I can decide whether or
not to install the proprietary version.


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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."

[shri75]

would it work on ati's hd4650 gfx card on my notebook?

[gumb]

I have two machines with Radeon 9600 cards (one is my laptop with a Mobility Radeon 9700, but that apparently is just a 9600 with another name). I was never able to get the proprietary fglrx driver installed properly in the past with openSUSE versions from 10.0 thru 10.3.

Then on upgrade to 11.0 I discovered the free Radeon driver, installed by default, was more than capable of running desktop effects and some 3D screensavers. That is, however, with KDE and KWin; never tried Compiz.

What I would like to know is whether, considering that openSUSE 11.2 will have Xorg 7.4 (same as 11.1 had), the free Radeon driver will be in any way improved for 9600 owners? I don't know which package exactly the driver is contained in.

[spiro2903]

I have HD4650 as well, compiz doesn't work out of the box (in ubuntu it does!!!), there is also no xorg.conf file after system installation. For xorg.conf I've did: Desktop effects are not supported...... - openSUSE Forums that got me the xorg.conf, but still no effects. In fact i can't even start simple-ccsm anymore. I could after instalation, but if I enabled desktop effects I got the white screen.
Does anyone know how to get compiz working on openSUSE??? I couldn't get it to work on 11.0 or 11.1!
BTW Installing ATI propriatary drivers makes my desktop dissapear (I just have a wallpaper) and no control over the keyboard!