openSuSE 12.1 - AMD radeon HD 6450 - open source driver

Hello,

I am currently considerung to replace my old NVIDIA graphics card with an low-end RADEON model. I also want to get rid of closed-source graphics drivers in the process.

Can anyone please tell me if the HD 6450 works properly under 12.1 with the open source Gallium 3D driver?
My requirements are rather low, I don’t run 3D games, KDE with desktop effects enabled should work fluently, though.

I tried browsing the forums, but found nothing on the topic, only that fglrx driver appears to be trouble.

My system is based on AMD Phenom X4, running the 64 bit version of OpenSuSE 12.1

Thanks!

Best regards,
Michael