I’ve been tired about that, if anybody can get a nice solution, I would appreciate it very much.
OS: clean installed openSUSE 11.2
Graphic Card : Ati Mobility Randeon X2300
:’(
This maybe of help to you. (as long as your card hasn’t newly made legacy by ati, it not on the list in the forums but beyond that I don’t know)
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Originally Posted by cubed_za View Post
Hi Gents
ATI Released 9.11 last night 17/11/2009. Will give it a bash on 11.2
These are hand typed extracts (by yours truly) from the latest posting of AMD’s Proprietary Linux driver. Any typographical or other mistakes in retyping are mine. This particular driver updates the software version to 8.671. It is also known as revision 9.11.
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This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating system:
• RHEL 5.4 support
• openSUSE 11.2 early look support
Resolved Issues
The following section provides a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Catalyst Linux software suite. These include:
• [Ubuntu 9.04] Animated busy mouse cursor no longer disappears or flickers in Clone mode
• Corruption no longer occurs after hot plugging a display and doing a Virtual Terminal switch
• With CrossFire enabled, system no longer becomes unresponsive when switching to DC (battery) mode with full-screen applications running
• [SUSE 11.1] Unplugging the secondary display and terminating the X server (Ctrl + Alt + Backspace) does not cause the primary display to become blank and display corruption
• Playing full screen Flash video on a secondary display no longer causes screen corruption
• Screen corruption no longer occurs when open GL screen saver is enabled with Desktop effects
Known Issues
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI Catalyst Linux software suite. These issues include:
• Segmentation fault may occur or system may display error during boot up if X is stopped in Dual-Head mode
• System may be unresponsive after executing specific combination of Xrandr reflections and rotations
• X server may fail to start GUI Desktop Manager after enabling secondary adapter using Catalyst Control Center
• Desktop resolution changes through Catalyst Control Center might not be applied after restarting X
• [Ubuntu 9.04] Some video cards may stop video output signal when monitor has been powered off.
Note: On Novell’s openSUSE, SLED, and SLES operating systems running “sax2” or “sax2 –r” on the console overwrites the X.Org configuration file xorg.conf, reverting changes made by running “aticonfig –initial” . As a result subsequent X session may start up using the open source Radeon on X-Vesa graphic drivers instead of the proprietary ATI Linux Graphics Driver.
Solution: Do not use Sax2 when the proprietary Linux Graphics Driver is installed. Instead configure all display parameters using the Catalyst Control Center – Linux Editon or the aticonfig command line interface.
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Hi,
X2300 (which I also have) cannot be found on ATI’s website… Through Google I found that it would be an alias name to X1450. If true that means it’s now a legacy card…
What I’d like to know before I switch to 11.2 is: will it merely work? I don’t really care about what driver makes it work, I just want it to!
Your card is supported by the open source driver included in opensuse 11.2. You don’t need the proprietary driver.
Also support for your card with the proprietary driver is dropped.
just to add:
attempt to install ati proprietary driver will seriously damage usability of your openSUSE… If you dont know how to fix or have no time, just forget about it.
Have laptop with X2300 card myself and had problems with the ATI drivers from the start. Now I am using the radeonhd opensource drivers.
This weekend I will try to get 3D working, I found this on the internet: X.Org Wiki - radeonhd
If anyone already tried it, please let me know the results.
Thankyou for all your replies,
I updated the opensource driver, and it works better now.
