ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 and OpenSUSE 11.2: experiencing difficulties with 3D

[Vidar Haugsvær]

On 12/15/2009 02:45 PM, Max Di Cosimo wrote:
> Yeah, I see.
> I was misleaded by someone who wrote that OpenSuse 11.2 installs radeon by default.
> I will have to install the radeon driver instead (even if actually I don't have the slightest idea how to do that: I need to study :) )
> Thank you,
> Max
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>
> To: Max Di Cosimo <mdicosimo at yahoo.com>
> Cc: xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org
> Sent: Tue, December 15, 2009 1:53:43 PM
> Subject: Re: ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 and OpenSUSE 11.2: experiencing difficulties with 3D
>
> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:32 -0800, Max Di Cosimo wrote: 
>   
>> Thank you.
>>     
> You're using the radeonhd driver, but this mailing list is about the
> radeon driver.
>
>
>   

It should be as simple as to change the driver  from "radeonhd" to
"radeon" in the device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
  BoardName    "ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics"
  Driver       "radeon"
#  Driver       "radeonhd"