New to ATI driver

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I am using the latest Tumblweed version witth kde. I am used to nvidia graphic cards tbut quite new to ati graphic cards. My graphic card is a R9 240.

I have installed the fglrx driver from:

http://geeko.ioda.net/mirror/amd-fglrx/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/

and this works fine. I have only installed the rpm’s for amdccle, core & graphics. Should I also install the rpm’s for xpic and opencl?

Also my settings for desktop effects / advanced - show composing type ‘OpenGL 2.0’. Should I leave this or change it to ‘OPENGL 3.0’ or ‘XRender’. My setting for QT graphic system shows ‘Raster’. Should I leave that or change it to ‘Native’.

Thanks very much.

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Probably yes.
The xpic one is just a meta package that pulls in all other ones, so you don’t actually need it as such.
But normally you’d just install that one to get everything.

Although opencl probably is not necessary, if you don’t want to use OpenCL.

Also my settings for desktop effects / advanced - show composing type ‘OpenGL 2.0’. Should I leave this or change it to ‘OPENGL 3.0’ or ‘XRender’. My setting for QT graphic system shows ‘Raster’. Should I leave that or change it to ‘Native’.

You should definitely use graphic system “Raster”, especially in combination with “OpenGL”.
“XRender” is no good idea, it disables certain effects and only uses 2D acceleration, which today’s cards don’t even offer in hardware any more.

It shouldn’t matter much whether use OpenGL 2.0 or 3.1, but if your card/driver supports it, 3.1 might be worth a try.

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Thanks very much Wolfi.