Hi forum,
I recently installed opensuse 12.1 after a long time with Ubuntu. This box is pretty old, I have a Radeon 9600 XT that I was using with the radeon driver in Ubuntu.
While running the livecd I could never get a gui. It booted me to the command line and I proceeded with the installation in text mode. The hard drive was wiped according to the installer. After booting up I still wasn’t able to get gdm to run and did a couple of things:
- edited /etc/permissions.local to uncomment the line:
/usr/bin/Xorg root:root 4711
and run the command:
SuSEconfig --module permissions
- enabled the radeon driver by editing the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf:
# Having multiple "Device" sections is known to be problematic. Make
# sure you don't have in use another one laying around e.g. in another
# xorg.conf.d file or even a generic xorg.conf file. More details can
# be found in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32430.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Driver "radeon"
## Required magic for radeon/radeonhd drivers; output name
## (here: "DVI-0") can be figured out via 'xrandr -q'
#Option "monitor-VGA-0" "Default Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Disable "dri"
Disable "dri2"
EndSection
Now I am able to boot to gui but due to disabling DRI I don’t have hardware acceleration and therefore cannot experience gnome 3. If I enable dri2 it still works but as soon as I enable dri I get the crash with “Caught signal 4” message.
Any ideas?
Here are the logs
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Thanks in advance