Is there a nice quick way to change currently used drivers in the system? Like, I have both fglrx and RadeonHD drivers installed here, and currently the fglrx is in use I think (glxinfo says “OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc., OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, OpenGL version string: 2.1.7769 Release”). So is there a quick way to switch the drivers, or do I have to uninstall fglrx first?
- GreatEmerald,
you’d have to restart X with a different xorg.conf.
Why?
Uwe
Hmm, but how different? Also, it’s auto generated by SAX2, which I tried looking in, but can’t find a place to select the driver.
Not much of a Linux user, but trying to get used to it 
- GreatEmerald,
Alt Ctrl F1, login as root.
init 3
sax2 -r -m 0=NameofDriver1
Configure, save or rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf
sax2 -r -m 0=NameofDriver2
Configure, save or rename this second /etc/X11/xorg.conf
How to toggle between the files in an elegant way, I have no idea. My question still stands, why do you want to do this at all?
Uwe
As ATI FGLRX drivers cause screen corruption, and RadeonHD are reported to be free of bugs like that. Not as functional, but at least I will see something. My original thread still stands unsolved:
ATI fglrx screen corruption fix? - openSUSE Forums
And thanks, I’ll try that.
Thanks, it works! No more screen corruption, but unfortunately some programs won’t work with those drivers.
On 09/10/2008 GreatEmerald wrote:
> No more screen corruption, but unfortunately some programs won’t work
> with those drivers.
Which ones? WHich driver? Compiz enabled? You should start a new thread with these informations.
Uwe