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I recently downloaded the GNOME opensuse 11.3 through a torrent. Everything is fine except when I try to enable desktop effects. The effects have worked before, and I know they DO work. The only thing that has changed is my monitor. I have a 22 inch Samsung LED monitor that uses both HDMI and VGA(Analog). Would this cause any problems?
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Thanks

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So the real issue with Desktop Effects is your video hardware and if you have elected to install an accelerated driver, should it exist, for your hardware. If you own AMD or nVidia, you will do better by loading their driver though with openSUSE 11.4, that may not always be the case. I use KDE and it Compositing setting which works fine with my nVidia video card and the driver version 260.19.36 that I load “The Hard Way” as they say. If you own Intel Video, the default driver might be just fine or you may find that a kernel update is required to get full 3D graphic support. Also, for what it is worth, I highly recommend you use a DVI connection to your monitor, which should not be a problem unless you have matched together very little graphic card memory (as in old) with a super high resolution monitor. I have had such issues with Laptops and dual monitor setups, but not in any single monitor setup I have seen.

Thank You,

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If Intel, since the OP had it working before, I doubt that it’s the kind of new intel chipset that might require a kernel update for 3D (or 2D). A kernel update was required for a full-screen Flash bug, but that’s 2D and didn’t work for everyone. I would expect the “intel” driver should be “just fine”, if appropriate.

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Well I know the driver I was using before was the ‘radeon’ driver, and everything worked pretty good. The card I have is ATI x700 Pro, so its kinda old, but still OK. The monitor though I had before was a Dell, that ran completely off of VGA.

Plus, when I try to boot from the CD, I can’t see anything with just HDMI. I can only see the boot and everything with VGA(Analog).

Also, when I type in this

/sbin/lspci -v | less

This is the Output for my Graphics Controller:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV410 [Radeon X700 Pro (PCIE)] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device 2302
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256]
        Memory at fdef0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64]
        I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fde00000 [disabled] [size=128]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: radeon

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So it is actually not a bad idea to use a VGA connection during the installation just in case the monitor is really new and the default driver is not good at determining your monitor type. DVI is better after the install as the default resolution, if supported, will just come right up automatically. You can look to see if a new video driver can be found here for your AMD card.

AMD.com | Support & Downloads

It never hurts to try the default first, but I think I would try their propritary driver before I then tried anything else. If you search the forums you can find lots of information about loading video drivers or look at the following link:

SDB:Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE

Here is a good place for the old ATI cards (Now called AMD):

SDB:ATI drivers - openSUSE

Good luck and let us know if we can help you in any other way.

Thank You,