As I've previously posted, I'm now using openSUSE and my ATI Mobility Radeon X700 was not fully functional.
After some investigation, I've found out that AMD no longer supports old ATI video cards for Linux.
I've even tried http://wiki.opensuse.org/SDB:ATI_drivers but with no luck.
Definitely this is one extra point for nVidia. When I replace my current laptop, it will have an nVidia card, that's for sure.
./M6
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openSUSE
I've just moved from Kubuntu to openSUSE.
The reason is simple, Kububtu 9.10 revealed too unstable for me. In just a couple of months I had to reinstall once and when troubles reappear for the second time, I talked with a friend and decided to give a try to openSUSE.
So far, so good. It's a lot more stable and my hardware seems to be better supported, even my ATI Mobility Radeon X700 that always gave me headaches in Linux works fine. Unfortunately the 3D support seems not be be fully working, but that is not a issue, at least for now.
I kept KDE as my window manager, it suits better my needs. The first look and feel at it was very pleasant. Even the desktop wallpaper is very good.
One of the first things I've learn was to add the Packman repository, since the default official repositories does not have some software for "some legal uncertainties". For instance, it does not have the mpeg2enc from mjpegtools, one has to remove the mjpegtools, add the Packman repository and add the mjpegtools again in order to have the Packman mjpegtools package installed, which does have the mpeg2enc.
Other great software, like 'Q' DVD-Author and DeVeDe, also comes from the Packman repository, so it is critical to include it.
Some things are different, specially when it comes to the administration part. Maybe it is because openSUSE has so much affinity with SUSE servers, it has a lot of easy administration tools right out-of-the-box.
But some things seem the same. The Network Manager still sucks. Why is it so hard to use, specially when its flag is "Pain-Free Networking"? Since Network Manager appeared, all it gave me was problems. In Kubuntu it simply did not connect via wifi, and now I can't enable it, even after I defined it to be my network manager and enabled it!...
Anyway, everything seems to work just fine and I'll keep openSUSE for a while, specially because it seems very stable.
./M6
The reason is simple, Kububtu 9.10 revealed too unstable for me. In just a couple of months I had to reinstall once and when troubles reappear for the second time, I talked with a friend and decided to give a try to openSUSE.
So far, so good. It's a lot more stable and my hardware seems to be better supported, even my ATI Mobility Radeon X700 that always gave me headaches in Linux works fine. Unfortunately the 3D support seems not be be fully working, but that is not a issue, at least for now.
I kept KDE as my window manager, it suits better my needs. The first look and feel at it was very pleasant. Even the desktop wallpaper is very good.
One of the first things I've learn was to add the Packman repository, since the default official repositories does not have some software for "some legal uncertainties". For instance, it does not have the mpeg2enc from mjpegtools, one has to remove the mjpegtools, add the Packman repository and add the mjpegtools again in order to have the Packman mjpegtools package installed, which does have the mpeg2enc.
Other great software, like 'Q' DVD-Author and DeVeDe, also comes from the Packman repository, so it is critical to include it.
Some things are different, specially when it comes to the administration part. Maybe it is because openSUSE has so much affinity with SUSE servers, it has a lot of easy administration tools right out-of-the-box.
But some things seem the same. The Network Manager still sucks. Why is it so hard to use, specially when its flag is "Pain-Free Networking"? Since Network Manager appeared, all it gave me was problems. In Kubuntu it simply did not connect via wifi, and now I can't enable it, even after I defined it to be my network manager and enabled it!...
Anyway, everything seems to work just fine and I'll keep openSUSE for a while, specially because it seems very stable.
./M6
ATI Radeon on Linux (Really) Sucks
ATI drivers for Linux never worked well. I have an Mobility Radeon X700 and I've been struggling with it for over 4 years on several Linux distributions.
I'm using Kubuntu for several months now, and on the previous version I was able to use the ATI drivers without the 3D acceleration. The drivers had to be installed from the Hardware Drivers System application. If I tried the official driver downloaded from ATI, it simply crashed.
I've recently upgraded Kubuntu to 9.04, and the Xorg configuration and ATI driver being used, were gone. Once again, I've tried the official ATI driver, version 9.4, and, once again, it crashed the system in such a way that I had to reboot through hardware. I've uninstalled the driver and tried the same procedure that worked on the previous Kubuntu version. It didn't work and it also crashed.
The problem was, I was able to install and uninstall the driver through the Hardware Drivers System application.
So, for two day I've been fighting to make the ATI driver to work or to go back to the previous configuration and driver.
I was unable to make the driver to work, so I spend some hours trying to revert into the previous working configuration.
Finally, I found the answer in the Ubuntu Documentation site, under the Community Documentation section, in the RadeonDriver article. Everyone's having problems with Radeon graphic cards under Linux, specially Ubuntu/Kubuntu, should read it.
Here's the magic command line that made X work again:
If you've been suffering with ATI bad Linux support and decided not to use the official drivers, but if you wish to keep fighting, check the Radeon article on X.Org Foundation wiki.
./M6
I'm using Kubuntu for several months now, and on the previous version I was able to use the ATI drivers without the 3D acceleration. The drivers had to be installed from the Hardware Drivers System application. If I tried the official driver downloaded from ATI, it simply crashed.
I've recently upgraded Kubuntu to 9.04, and the Xorg configuration and ATI driver being used, were gone. Once again, I've tried the official ATI driver, version 9.4, and, once again, it crashed the system in such a way that I had to reboot through hardware. I've uninstalled the driver and tried the same procedure that worked on the previous Kubuntu version. It didn't work and it also crashed.
The problem was, I was able to install and uninstall the driver through the Hardware Drivers System application.
So, for two day I've been fighting to make the ATI driver to work or to go back to the previous configuration and driver.
I was unable to make the driver to work, so I spend some hours trying to revert into the previous working configuration.
Finally, I found the answer in the Ubuntu Documentation site, under the Community Documentation section, in the RadeonDriver article. Everyone's having problems with Radeon graphic cards under Linux, specially Ubuntu/Kubuntu, should read it.
Here's the magic command line that made X work again:
apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrxThe command must be executed as root.
If you've been suffering with ATI bad Linux support and decided not to use the official drivers, but if you wish to keep fighting, check the Radeon article on X.Org Foundation wiki.
./M6
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