total ATI driver confusion

[Gps4l]

Weird.

I am watching Justin tv on Linux with FireFox.

Catalist beta 10.10.

Suse 11.3

[agd5f]

is the patch in the 2.6.36rc8??

Yes, it is.

[Gps4l]

do you use Minefield4

I have no idea, were can I check this ?

[crazycheese]

AMD+fglrx=Nvidia

I see AMD has actually near zero bugdet for opensource driver, why are they polishing fglrx 10.10? Why is Qaridarium so happy about blob?

[Gps4l]

klick on help in your browser then about minefild..

my version is: minefild4.0b8pre mozilla firefox for canonical 1.0

Suse does not seem to use minefield.

I have re installed open suse 11.3 now for the third time.
( that why I did not answer sooner)

I will not be installing the catalist drivers for a while.
Now I wil try the experimental opensource drivers.

So right now I not yet have 3D support, but I can watch justin tv.
During the install of open suse, I had to accept a flash license, that why I am pretty sure I am using the closed source player.

[Gps4l]

On openSUSE you should use following additional repositories:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_11.3/

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jobermayr/openSUSE_11.3/

Packages:
Kernel
drm-radeon-kmp-{flavor}
libdrm
Mesa
xorg-x11-driver-video

That are latest drivers (experimental, daily updated, dri and gallium).

Note:
Keep always one working kernel flavor because kernels from Kernel:HEAD are sometimes broken.

Which drn-radeon should I choose ?

drm-radeon-kmp-default
drm-radeon-kmp-desktop
drm-radeon-kmp-pae
drm-radeon-kmp-xen

[jobermayr]

Which drn-radeon should I choose ?

drm-radeon-kmp-default
drm-radeon-kmp-desktop
drm-radeon-kmp-pae
drm-radeon-kmp-xen

The one which fits to your installed kernel:

kernel-default and drm-radeon-kmp-default
kernel-desktop and drm-radeon-kmp-desktop
kernel-pae and drm-radeon-kmp-pae
kernel-xen and drm-radeon-kmp-xen

But keep one working kernel (for example):
kernel-desktop and drm-radeon-kmp-desktop from Kernel:HEAD and home:jobermayr
and kernel-default from openSUSE_11.3

When you cannot boot with Kernel from Kernel:HEAD you can boot with a rescue Kernel ...

[Gps4l]

The one which fits to your installed kernel:

kernel-default and drm-radeon-kmp-default
kernel-desktop and drm-radeon-kmp-desktop
kernel-pae and drm-radeon-kmp-pae
kernel-xen and drm-radeon-kmp-xen

But keep one working kernel (for example):
kernel-desktop and drm-radeon-kmp-desktop from Kernel:HEAD and home:jobermayr
and kernel-default from openSUSE_11.3

When you cannot boot with Kernel from Kernel:HEAD you can boot with a rescue Kernel ...

I have used google, and found what I was looking for.
I need to edit a file.

file /etc/zypp/zypp.conf

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/install-boot-login/447030-keeping-current-kernel-when-doing-kernel-update-through-yast.html

I am not happy they changed this though. The openSuse versions I used before this one, did this by default.

Ah well, another problem solved.

[Gps4l]

The one which fits to your installed kernel:


But keep one working kernel (for example):
kernel-desktop and drm-radeon-kmp-desktop from Kernel:HEAD and home:jobermayr
and kernel-default from openSUSE_11.3

When you cannot boot with Kernel from Kernel:HEAD you can boot with a rescue Kernel ...

It seems I instaleld all.

I added the two links to yast. Then did and update.

When I run glxgears, it says
WARNING: Direct Rendering is NOT enabled

Should I unstall something ?

When I looked in yast2 I noticed that also the radeon HD drivers are installed.

System info also still says no 3D support

One thing I can think off, I am picking the wrong suuse from the grub screen ?
I am now picking the one with the highest number.

[bridgman]

Check in your xorg log and see which driver is actually being used.