AMD Catalyst 8.01 Linux Driver on openSUSE
by cyberorg,
Sunday, January 20th, 2008 @ 7:30 am
Couple of days back the new drivers were released. Here is the changelog from our friend sndirsch, maintainer of X for openSUSE:
Sat Jan 19 00:05:37 CET 2008 - sndirsch
- update to release 8.45.4
* Corruption will no longer be noticed in the lower right corner
of the display or on the mouse pointer after the system is
running for a long period of time
* Connecting a display device that supports 1680×1050 to a system
running Linux will no longer result in a maximum display
resolution of 1280×1024 only being available
* Custom mode lines in xorg.conf will no longer be ignored by the
fglrx driver
* Suspending to RAM or DISK on kernel version 2.6.23 or later no
longer fails
It is still not possible to play videos when compiz is running like we can do it on nvidia drivers. The ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager options required are here.
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: E@zyVG, January 20, 2008 @ 7:44 pm
About video, yes the prob is still there …. sad. Before watching I have to switch off compositing, though with KDE4 Desktop Effects settings manager it is a quick one.
Currently I am running KDE4 KDwin compositing (Desktop effects) with this 8.01 driver, using AIGLX, and being frank the performance (fps) is not that great.
1. Have you tried KDE4 Desktop Effects with Xgl (is the support there with this driver)?
2. Which are the best settings to have enabled/disabled under Desktop Settings
Any tips you can give on this issue.
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: apache11, January 21, 2008 @ 8:48 pm
as far as I’m concerned, ATI drivers stopped working since 7.12 (=8.44) from December 2007. The latest version 8.01 (=8.45) from Jan 2008 doesn’t work either. When I start Compiz Fusion I get a black screen with these two releases, in AIGLX as well as in XGL. So the last version that worked for me was 7.11 (=8.43) from November 2007. And I got an ATI 9800 Pro 256 MB running in PCLinuxOS (KDE 3.58, Linux kernel 2.6.22.15).I read in forums that other guys had the issue too, don’t know what they changed at ATI in their last two releases, don’t know how they tested it.
: apache11, January 21, 2008 @ 8:50 pm
sorry guys (lol(, I think I just realized that this thread was created for OpenSuse users.
: rewop, February 26, 2008 @ 5:28 pm
I’m having a problem with setting 1680×1050 res on external monitor with latest 8.02 drivers. Not sure what is the displayed resolution, but it certainly is not 1680.
Using thinkpad t60 with 1400×1050 on built in lcd. Is this possible with this release at all?