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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] New ATI driver released... And works!
From:       Michal Hlavac <hlavki () hlavki ! eu>
Date:       2009-03-30 20:06:27
Message-ID: 200903302206.28147.hlavki () hlavki ! eu
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Hmmm,

you are the lucky one ;) I have problem with wake up from s2ram when power 
cable is pulled off. It always freeze. I have Thinkpad r60 (ati mobility X1400) 
and OpenSuse 11.1

m.

On Sunday 29 March 2009 19:27:55 Michael A. Sterba wrote:
> Hello Listmates,
>
> I just installed ATI's new driver from
> ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run and all I can say is "It's about
> time!"
>
> The resulting rpm generated installed without any heavy problems. My
> glxgears went from avgeraging 2300-2400 to 4800-5200.
>
> A couple of side notes on this. If you were using the radeonhd driver
> beforehand and did the recommended atconfig --initial command, please
> review your xorg.conf file to make sure it didn't leave the radeonhd
> loaded. I diidn't see inprovements in speed till I removed that reference
> from the file. This is what i'm referencing....
>
> *Remove**
> Section "Device"
>   BoardName    "Mobility Radeon HD 3650"
>   Driver       "radeonhd"
>   Identifier   "Device[0]"
>   Option       "monitor-PANEL" "Monitor[0]"
>   VendorName   "ATI"
> EndSection
> *End of remove*
>
> Section "Device"
>   BoardName    "Mobility Radeon HD 3650"
>   Driver       "fglrx"
>   Identifier   "Device[0]"
>   Option       "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
>   Option       "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
>   Option       "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
>   Option       "FSAAScale" "0"
>   Option       "FSAAEnable" "off"
>   Option       "VideoOverlay" "on"
>   VendorName   "ATI"
> EndSection
>
>
> Also, I noticed that the following was missing....
>
> Section "Extensions"
>   Option       "Composite" "on"
> EndSection
>
> With the above edits done... I have double the speed on my Lenovo W500
> laptop. --
>
> Thank you,
>
> Michael.A.Sterba
> ARS - KG7HQ
> Assistant Director/Technical Specialist
> Northwest Division, ARRL

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