After mulling over all the threads on this I’m still puzzled. Before trying to justify the Novell+ATI open source driver, it’s buggy on my system due to the horrible plethora of congfigurations present in ATI hosts. Given that this is a laptop and frankly I’m terrible at soldering, I don’t have much of a choice of upgrades.
I’ve already done:
zypper in kernel-source linux-kernel-headers kernel-syms module-init-tools make gcc
This SHOULD give me all the packages. Right?
Barley:~ # sh ./ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run
Created directory fglrx-install.hey3sn
Verifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.593…
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
which: no XFree86 in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/kde3/sbin:/root/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib64/jvm/jre/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin)
Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
default:v2:x86_64:lib::none:2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop; make sure that the version is being
correctly set by --iscurrentdistro
I have a box with onboard Radeon X1250 same problem been waiting for a solution or a repository soon I will breakdown and buy a cheap NVidia card to slap in it.
As I understand it:
ATI doesn’t support it’s legacy cards with drivers later than 9.3.
ATI driver has no support for the Kernel used in OpenSuSE 11.2 in drivers before version 9.11.
This is unlikely to ever change (for the better, it’ll get worse as more cards go legacy). If you have a legacy card you’re better off trying the Radeon open source drivers.
Hey virtudtierra I have the same card and can verify that citizen247 has it right we xpress 200m
owners are out of luck as far as ATI’s driver goes. But I have the radeon driver working on my
system and it is okay. A few issues but nothing that can’t be handled.
Heres a link to a thread where a few of us Xpress 200 and other legacy card owners are working
together to fix our issues. ATI legacy cards
I have the card in my girlfriends laptop -> no way to switch over to nvidia
If I am not able to get rid of the black screen I will consider to downgrade to opensuse 11.1
Installed from a DVD I had a few issued with it. (if your having issues with the install let me know)
32bit install (why because unless you have over 4g’s of ram
there is no reason to install a 64bit OS’s as they run no faster
on x86 hardware. That really tick me off after suffering through a year of 64bit.)
The sax command that seems to work for the xpress 200m
is Sax2 -r -m 0=ati. (this has worked for me and several others)
The driver seems to be radeon for me. (I think that the 0=ati option just allows sax
to choose which ati driver to use.)
I removed and backup the original xorg.conf.install file before runing sax2 -r -m 0=ati.
Remove all xorg files from /etc/X11 and back them up. ( would also tar.gz the files to make sure the system can see them)
The black screen is caused by kdm failing to load. You can get around that by using init 3 to start from grub then login in and using su to start the kdm. Everything works after that for one restart then you have to do it all over again. Now there is a guy in the other thread that claims that you just need to refresh your xorg install from the repo’s and things work fine. I did it and nothing new so far, but that may just be my system.
I would go back to 11.1 but it is so much nicer in 11.2 even with this Graphics driver issue. But if this is you girl friends laptop I would try the options above and see if your systems one of the lucky ones. If not just go back it will be easier, I haven’t upgrade my wifes system yet she loves her laptop on 11.1. O and she issued a death threat against upgrading after watching me fight with 11.2 graphics issue.
I will be putting out a step by step how to in the other thread today so go there for further details not in this post. Link to other thread
This is not true, if you have 2 GiB of RAM the system works faster at somethings in 64 bit, due to architectural improvements. Audio encoding for example may take 1/2 as long, find the benchmarks
Those running 64 bit now, are not seeing problems and many on forum very happy. There’s a huge user base in 64 bit, and most developers are likely to be using 64 bit distro’s, I would expect with time more problems to show up on “legacy” 32 bit.
I have heard such before do you have some reading url’s you could pass on. I have alway considered the 64bit on x86 hardware to be a bit of a con since the core of the cpu runs at 32bit. One of my professor’s explained at great length one afternoon that you effectively lost the dual pump of the 64bit bus as entered into the cpu. Whether or not he is right I do not know, how ever all the texts I have since studied agreed that that x86 cpu’s are 32bit along with several systems bus like the pci bus.
So if that is all bunk and there is an advantage to using a 64bit OS as far as the cpu goes I would love to read about it.
Now I do believe the sound architectural improvements maybe an advantage to 64bit.
The only truly 64bit cpu in standard production that I know of for desktops and servers is the sparks core from Sun.
