ASUS EAX1950 XTX Problem with SuSE and xorg-x11-driver-video-7.4-106.1 update:

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:23 AM, wild-thing<revealed at freakmail.de> wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> Some days ago there i got some updates and this one for my machine
> (X-Server). Its changelog is showing this:
> #- xf86-video-intel 2.7.99.902
> #  * This is the second release candidate in preparation for the
> #    upcoming 2.8.0 release. Most major and critical bugs should
> #    be fixed, but some minor bugs may still be present. We will
> #    appreciate any feedback we can get from testing of this
> #    snapshot to improve the 2.8.0 release.
>
> I am receiving problems since installing this and some further updates.
> Before these updates there have not been such issues. I have been contacting
> a person at SUSE already. I was adviced to, please try here. So thats the
> intention of this E-Mail:
>
> Systemoverview:
>
> - This Xorg repository:"../repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.1/"
> - This one, too: "../repositories/X11:/XGL/openSUSE_11.1/"
> - KDE 4.2x Repo + suiting QT + Community ...
> - ASUS EAX1950 XTX PCI-E
>
> - Screen: HPw2408h
> - SuSE 11.1 ( 32 Bit )
> - Grafikdriver is "radeon"
>
> In past i had been using driver "radeonhd" but it had bigger troubles than
> radeon and radeon worked quite really good until this update so this is
> about "radeon"::
>
> ## Problems:
> I got a IVTV (mpeg2) stream TV-card. Watching TV in Mplayer brings problems:
>
> - I can not watch TV and for example start FooBillard at the same time. The
> Xserver (whole KDE) will lockup. I am able to move the Hardwarecursor. But i
> can not make any other inputs anymore. No clicking. No ACPI softbutton
> shutdown. Only turning the computer hard off is possible.

I would suggest trying a newer mesa 3d driver.  mesa from git master
would be your best bet (7.6 devel snapshot).

Alex