Hello,
How do I enable the open-source Radeon driver?
I have 10.3 and an ATI X1250.
Thank you for any help.
What desktop environment you running?
translucentSabre wrote:
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> Hello,
> How do I enable the open-source Radeon driver?
> I have 10.3 and an ATI X1250.
> Thank you for any help.
Boot in runlevel 3. To do this you can type 3 when you see boot menu.
You will see text mode login:
Login:root <press Enter>
Password: <give here root password and press Enter>
There is no visual feedback in text mode like stars in GUI, so just type in
and press Enter.
Now run program:
sax2 -m 0=radeon
it will replace nvidia driver with readeon.
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Regards, Rajko
I have not yet tried Rajiko’s advice, but I think that I am currently not using nvidia driver but the proprietary ati driver and think that the open source one will serve me better.
Oh and for MadHag: KDE3
I remember the days when you just went into sax2 and just clicked the enable 3D box 
Well for some reason, my card is able to do 3d but right now I can’t even get smooth 2d video out of it.
Ok I tried Rajiko’s method and it said:
SaX: no X-Server is Running
SaX: will start own server if needed
SPP: prepare device [0] profile: Depth24
SPP: prepare device [0] profile: Radeon
SPP: calling device [0] profile script: Radeon
SPP: prepare device [0] profile: FireGL.addon
SPP: prepare device [3] profile: synaptics
SPP: calling device [3] profile script: synaptics
SPP: including prepared profile(s)…
Sax: startup
xc: sorry could not start configuration server
xc: for details refer to the log file:
/var/log/SaX.log
xc: abort…
I’m posting this but I’m going to look into that log file
You might want to uninstall all and get the driver from the ATI site, login as root and create/put the file in /ati and then go through the list of packages needed and install them, then read the installation destructions and maybe it will work. I did it in Parsix the other day and it worked a treat.
Is the Linux Catalyst driver ok for your card though?
translucentSabre wrote:
> I’m posting this but I’m going to look into that log file
You can post it on http://pastebin.com and post only URL here.
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Regards, Rajko
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands.
I actually just wanted to get decent video for my comp. I now have it fixed, thank you all for your help.
It depends on your needs.
The open-source radeonhd driver is normally installed by default if you have an X1K series or above with 11.0 GM; however, the caveat is that 3D is not supported at all. (That means no desktop effects, compiz-fusion, or 3D gaming.)
I, like you, am running the closed-source (fglrx) driver (X1650PRO AGP) with 11.0 GM; however, I wanted the accelerated desktop and gaming-in-3D options, which meant that the fglrx driver was my only choice.
I have a notebook with a ATI X700 mobile and wanted to try the latest opensource driver for it. The 6.9 version has just come out:
[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.9.0](http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2008-June/000596.html)
Any instruction on how to install this?
regards,
Carlos
I am running with the radeon driver since that is the only one that works with my laptop.
I get 3d effects runnign though maybe not as smooth as on most computers.
I pretty much looked at compiz fusion then got bored and shut it off after a day, and just let the basic KDE4 effects run.
I can also play some 3d games.
There is a certain level of limitation if I try a high end game I am sure, but for my needs the radeon driver isn’t totally incapable of 3d stuff, and it doesn’t say I can’t do any 3d stuff either.
can you tell how you’ve done it?