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# First of all I want to thank everyone who was and may be will helping me out.
I'm downloading opensuse 11.3 already, will install it tomorrow.
But in the mean time I just want to understand better whether I need to use 'radeon; driver that comes with opensuse 11.3 or I need to install 'xf86-video-ati-6.13.1' driver?
Just to refresh: My final goal is to setup 'zaphod mode' (dual desktop) to be able to launch two instances of 'gwenview' in different monitors.
DISPLAY=:0.0 gwenview -f -s /path/dir1/* &
DISPLAY=:0.1 gwenview -f -s /path/dir2/* &
I am able to do that right now with 'radeon' driver specifyed in xorg.conf. But, the system gets frozen on the attempt to reboot and I need to fix that.
Is it just my 'xorg.conf' poorly configured or is it a driver issue and I definitely need to install 'xf86-video-ati-6.13.1' driver to fix that?
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It is possible.
Just use:
Code:./configure --prefix=/usr
If you want to use KMS you also need a new kernel and libdrm. But it's easier to upgrade to openSUSE 11.3 which uses KMS by default:
replace all "11.2" with "11.3" in your configured repos and run:
Code:zypper dup
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Did someone test xf86-video-ati-6.13.1 driver on opensuse 11.2?
Is it possible at all to install it?
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I did 'cp xorg-macros.m4 /usr/share/aclocal'
and installed xf86-video-ati-6.13.1 again. Moved further but still errors out:
./configure: line 13083: syntax error near unexpected token `RANDR,'
./configure: line 13083: `XORG_DRIVER_CHECK_EXT(RANDR, randrproto)'
Please help!
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I really shouldn't say this but I will anyway. This is why I use Gentoo.
It's probably because you installed util-macros to /usr/local and it's looking in /usr. Not that you should use /usr but I'm not sure how to make autoconf look elsewhere.
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I guess it still see xorg-macros version 1.2.2.
'configure.ac:35: error: xorg-macros version 1.3 or higher is required but 1.2.2 found'
What did I do wrong to install util-macros-1.10.0?
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Downloaded xorg-macros but not sure what is wrong. Still fail to install xf81-video-ati
linux-3pom:/home/admin/Download/util-macros-1.10.0 # ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating xorg-macros.pc
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating xorg-macros.m4
linux-3pom:/home/admin/Download/util-macros-1.10.0 # make
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
linux-3pom:/home/admin/Download/util-macros-1.10.0 # make install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Download/util-macros-1.10.0'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/local/share/aclocal" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/aclocal"
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'xorg-macros.m4' '/usr/local/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4'
test -z "/usr/local/share/util-macros" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/util-macros"
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'INSTALL' '/usr/local/share/util-macros/INSTALL'
test -z "/usr/local/share/pkgconfig" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/pkgconfig"
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'xorg-macros.pc' '/usr/local/share/pkgconfig/xorg-macros.pc'
make install-data-hook
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Download/util-macros-1.10.0'
rm -f /usr/local/share/aclocal/xorgversion.m4
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Download/util-macros-1.10.0'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Download/util-macros-1.10.0'
linux-3pom:/home/admin/Download/util-macros-1.10.0 # cd ../xf86-video-ati-6.13.1/
linux-3pom:/home/admin/Download/xf86-video-ati-6.13.1 # ./autogen.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal
configure.ac:35: error: xorg-macros version 1.3 or higher is required but 1.2.2 found
/usr/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4:45: XORG_MACROS_VERSION is expanded from...
configure.ac:35: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
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(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//drivers/radeon_drv.so
(II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.6.5, module version = 6.12.4
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0
and in YaST2>HardwareInfo I got this for the display card properties:
Driver: fglrx_pci
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Ah. *wishes he hadn't asked* I forgot that OpenSUSE still ships with radeonhd instead.
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