I’m curious if you were to remove “xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd” if your PC would boot to X without an xorg.conf file (such as you are now using). But thats curiousity on my part and not a requirement.
Yes, I’d enjoy knowing the anser to this as well. I’d suspect this would do the trick, with the X-server falling back to the next preferred (radeon?) driver. It would be nice to see confirmation of this.
In 11.3 (as in 11.2) it should not be necessary to run sax2 , but rather xorg should automatically configure one’s X upon boot. Hence options may be to blacklist “radeonhd” driver in the /etc/modprobe.d/ blacklist file, and/or remote the rpm “xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd”.
I thought it had been reported that openSUSE 11.3 would not be including any further support for this driver. Is that correct? As you have mentioned several times previously, the radeon driver has been vastly impoved, so we should see significant ATI graphics improvement for openSUSE 11.3 users.
I think radeon should boot by default in 11.3 (and not radeonhd) but I’ve only been able to test this on 11.3 milestone on 2 PCs with ATI hardware (and both exhibited that behaviour). But 2 pcs is not very conclusive.
As a possible workaround, I was thinking along the following lines…
Since the distro should not be burnt to a +/-RW medium, and trying out various possible DVD mediums could cost a fortune, i’ll go ahead and burn a USB - while trying to see if there are any install scripts on the ISO that we can edit to keep it from modprobe-ing radeonhd.
man radeon and man radeonhd reveal that the latter is more geared towards current or directx10+ hardware and only limited support is present for the now-legacy graphics hardware.
If anyone knows how to possibly edit the distro’s install scripts, please share your thoughts - we might come up with a personalized installer USB/DVD medium that never fails on the graphical installation. That might also help with future openSUSE versions that fail to ‘realize’ that radeonhd is not the best choice for everyone - or most, at the least.
just some thoughts. not sure if this violates the GPL/ LGPL - im not good at reading those loong essays but i guess as long as one does not re-distribute those edited ISOs it might be fine with the guys out there.
Well, I just decided to switch my video cards around and now the installation worked and I have a login screen after the install. openSuse did not like the 9500 NVIDIA card as the primary. I tried the manual configuration and no success with that either. I guess no more games for me.
but i guess as long as one does not re-distribute those edited ISOs it might be fine with the guys out there.