I installed OpenSuse 11.2, and I have an ATI X1300 Pro video card. I read a few topics about it, and I understand that ATI will no longer support my card as well as many others. Still, I’d like to use desktop effects in kde for example.
First, I can’t find xorg.conf. Where is it? People write here that the radeon or the radeonhd driver may work, but I don’t know where to change it without the xorg.conf file.
Maybe someone else found a configuration that works with a card like mine?
I have the same card as you have.
The xorg.conf file is located at /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I still have trouble enabling desktop effects. But in order to run some GLX apps I had to switch from RadeonHD to radeon driver. The default radeonHD crashes after a few seconds when i ran glxgears.
What I did to change the driver was:
Change to root in a terminal console by entering “su”
sax2 -r -m 0=radeon
this command will start Sax2 and you can adjust your settings. Test and save and then
rcxdm restart
This will restart your X session. Or you can just reboot if you like. After this you have the radeon driver instead of the radeonHD. But i still have no Compiz:’(
You may also wish to consider post#11 here: openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users - openSUSE Forums - post#11 … where some users of ATI ‘legacy’ hardware have noted that updating mesa, xorg-x11-driver-input, xorg-x11-driver-video and xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd from the X11 : XOrg repository , has provided significantly more stable and superior performance for the radeon and radeonhd drivers on openSUSE-11.2.
If you do install those drivers from that repository, be certain to disable the repository afterward in YaST, because those tend to be cutting edge drivers and being cutting edge there is always a risk they will “break” one’s GUI/desktop.