I have a problem on boot of my OpenSuse 12.3. It takes a long time until I get to the login screen (a few minutes) and it is very annoying.
In boot protocol I saw the following error:
Test the graphics driver update for RADEON ( AMD Graphics Drivers & Software – Download the latest drivers for your graphics products ).
What you have linked to (the proprietary graphics drivers) has nothing to do with that shown in the original post (which is relating to the radeon drm kernel module … the catalyst/fglrx has its own, completely different, drm driver)
Do you use Google? Copy the Error-Code and you will see, what I mean. I thought the bug of the driver would be fixed perhaps in the last weeks and you can update this one.
Ah, so perhaps what you were trying to convey to the OP was something along the lines of:
“I’ve seen others complain of a similar error (just do a search for such an error message on the internet). So, if its really bothering you (and until it is resolved in the OSS stack), you might want to consider trying the proprietary AMD drivers instead”
The problem is with the kernel driver, so any fix not might end up being available until:
a future kernel … with multi kernel version it is easy for you to try a newer one to see if it has resolved the problem, without worry about your current install
a bug patch gets backported to the current kernel … this is not likely in my opinion
But that all precedes the larger point – is there a fix available? Is there even a bug report for this yet? Suggest you consult the drm mailing lists and Bugzilla to see, otherwise the issue will most likely persist if it is unknown about in the proper channels