i dont know what is going i used to have desktop effects and the scrolling down windows on the net was fast and fluid but started up my laptop today and its all choppy and slow with scrolling down when i grap windows and move them around its choppy also i now cant enable any of my effects
So, how about some more info about your graphics card and driver? I’m guessing that you had a proprietary driver installed…Did you do a recent update?
/sbin/lspci -nnk
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Upload the output of the last command to SUSE Paste then post the link to it here.
Finally, while waiting for answers have a read of this:
/sbin/lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge Alternate [1022:9601]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx) [1022:9602]
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0) [1022:9604]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1) [1022:9605]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 41)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller [1002:439c] (rev 40)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383] (rev 40)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller [1002:439d] (rev 40)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384] (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller [1002:4399]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1200]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map [1022:1201]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller [1022:1202]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control [1022:1203]
Kernel driver in use: k10temp
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control [1022:1204]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200] [1002:9712]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
01:05.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4200] [1002:970f]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1692] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
Kernel driver in use: tg3
08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002a] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e01f]
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
This is the relevant line concerning your graphics card
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200] [1002:9712]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036e]
Were you using the proprietary fglrx driver, or the default open source radeon driver?
i have no idea sorry is there a command i can type into the command line to update my drivers manually
Well, I really wanted to see what graphics issues were reported by Xorg first beofre giving further advice. Read my first post re Xorg.0.log. (Don’t post the output here directly, cut and paste to the upload site I pointed you at. Then post the link that it gives you here).
Here is a guide on installing the ATI proprietary driver packages: