<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">>On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:48 AM, <a ymailto="mailto:StompDagger1@yahoo.com" href="mailto:StompDagger1@yahoo.com">StompDagger1@yahoo.com</a> <<a ymailto="mailto:stompdagger1@yahoo.com" href="mailto:stompdagger1@yahoo.com">stompdagger1@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: >>>On Die, 2012-12-11 at 01:45 -0800, <a ymailto="mailto:StompDagger1@yahoo.com" href="mailto:StompDagger1@yahoo.com">StompDagger1@yahoo.com</a> wrote: >>>> >On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 11:33 -0800, <a ymailto="mailto:StompDagger1@yahoo.com" href="mailto:StompDagger1@yahoo.com">StompDagger1@yahoo.com</a> wrote: >>>>> >> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:16 PM, <<a ymailto="mailto:olivier.e.amann@gmail.com" href="mailto:olivier.e.amann@gmail.com">olivier.e.amann@gmail.com</a>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >> >> When starting openSuse 12.2, the X-server terminates with a >>>> >> segmentation fault (see attached log file). >>>> >> >>>> >> >The open source driver should support your card just fine. Can >>>> you >>>> >> >install debugging symbols and get a proper backtrace with GDB? >>>> >> >http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging >>>> >> >>>> >> Alex, looking at his log, I don't see the card in the support list, >>>> >> his card is the v7700? >>>> >>>> >As you can see in the lspci output, it's a 7500, which is Turks >>>> >(Northern Islands generation) based. >>>> >>>> >If the driver didn't support the card, it would bail much earlier. >>>> >>>> looking at the xorg log, I see Turks only as part of the AMD Radeon HD >>>> 6700 Series, does this means that 7500 Series is part of the 6700 >>>> Series? >> >>>It's complicated. :\ >> >>>7xx0 and 6xx0 are marketing names, which are mostly irrelevant for >>>driver support, in contrast to code names such as Turks, Northern >>>Islands etc. >> >> I see, so maybe it is a good idea to fix the radeon output? if I had this >> problem, I'd assume that the driver doesn't supports the card, this would >> have wasted a lot of time. >Marketing and OEMs come up with so many different names, it's hard to >keep track. Best bet it to look at the pci ids, or check wikipedia: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ati_gpu >Alex I see, thanks for the explanation. </div> </div> </div></body></html>