11.2 x64 ATI & NVidia installs compared

I currently run 11.1 x64 KDE 4.3.1 on an AMD 64 X2 +6000 4gig RAM with NV 7900 GTX video.

I have installed 11.2 x64 KDE on a spare 250 gig HDD as a test run to updating my system, also installed on an AMD 64 X2 +4200 1 gig RAM with ATI x1250 integrated mobo graphics.

Both installs went off with out a problem, my main system has both onboard HD audio and a Creative X-FI extreme music card. I can happily report that my X-Fi and HD onboard sound worked strait out of the box. On current 11.1 and previous versions HD sound needed tweaking to work and X-Fi not supported. NVidia driver install i added the FTP repo as the browse-able repo was not up yet driver installed with out a hitch.

The other box with ATI graphics all is well except for graphics, no ATI repo available yet and after 2 failed attempts at installing the hard way I’ll wait for a repo. 11.2 detects properly lists in sysinfo but graphic are slugggish and jittery, there are artifacts closing windows.

Think I’m going to wait a couple of weeks for the software repos to catch up before upgrading main system.
The other box will go to a friend who wants to try Linux when he can talk his wife into giving him a spot in her house for it. >:)

The other box with ATI graphics all is well except for graphics, no ATI repo available yet and after 2 failed attempts at installing the hard way I’ll wait for a repo. 11.2 detects properly lists in sysinfo but graphic are slugggish and jittery, there are artifacts closing windows.

Unfortunately, this ATI model is no longer supported by the fglrx proprietary driver capable of working with the version of Xorg that openSUSE 11.2 uses, so the radeon driver is all that is available. Disappointing huh?

Not just disapointing: totally frustrating!! I use openSUSE since SuSE 8, and I never had a real problem to deal whit.

BUT, with openSUSE 11.2 and my ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 card (in my Dell Vostro 1000 notebook), I could not make graphic interface work. After several workarounds, none of them could do the trick.

I have to downgrade to openSUSE 11.1 again… this is very frustrating because I have 6 identical notebooks, all with ATI Radeon XPRESS 200, so I will have to mantain openSUSE 11.1 and wait for a solution (either from openSUSE or ATI).

I just have a cheap lil Nvidia GeForce 7000M in my acer aspire. The way I install it is Idownload the bin file from nvidias web site and then I shutdown X and run the bin file. It brings up a simple UI and it compiles a driver for the kernel and rewrites the x config file and then its done. Takes about 60 seconds. What I hate is on boot up, an Nvidia splash screen pops up for a split second when x starts and then the kde suse splash. Just makes it look like **** with all the flickering of splash screens.

Does anyone know how to stop this dumb nvidia splash screen.