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Nothinman

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I don't use SuSe so I don't care too much, but I don't have any problems using software that's developed by people who have views that I don't agree with.
 

REMF

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Originally posted by: nutxo
After reading this thread I decided to get suse. I went reading.



why i wont use suse again

Why would I support a company that fels this way about me?

what a ridiculous load of rubbish. if you don't want to run SUSE, then don't. you will not be missed.
 

n0cmonkey

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Originally posted by: nutxo
After reading this thread I decided to get suse. I went reading.



why i wont use suse again

Why would I support a company that fels this way about me?

I'm not sure if you noticed, but most of the world is against the attacks in Iraq. If you don't want to support SuSE, get something else.
 

nutxo

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Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: nutxo
After reading this thread I decided to get suse. I went reading.



why i wont use suse again

Why would I support a company that fels this way about me?

I'm not sure if you noticed, but most of the world is against the attacks in Iraq. If you don't want to support SuSE, get something else.

Yeh. I didnt mean to start anything, sorry .

what a ridiculous load of rubbish. if you don't want to run SUSE, then don't. you will not be missed.

I realized this and decided you are right, one person will not be missed. I will start an email campaign to every retailer in the US that carries SUSE and ask them to pull it from thier shelves.

LOL j/k

 

n0cmonkey

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Originally posted by: nutxo
Yeh. I didnt mean to start anything, sorry .

:beer:

I realized this and decided you are right, one person will not be missed. I will start an email campaign to every retailer in the US that carries SUSE and ask them to pull it from thier shelves.

LOL j/k

Go for it. Email SuSE and this guy and tell them that you find his reporting of news to be wrong and putting SuSE in a bad light. Have some fun with it.
 

cleverhandle

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Wheee! We're linux zealots - why answer a technical question when we can talk about Iraq instead?

@zayened - You're bumping into a general linux problem that can be awfully confusing to newbies - the existence of parallel code branches. Lots of projects in linux, especially ones that relate to the kernel, have a main branch that's pretty easy to deal with as well as a more up-to-date branch that takes a lot more work. Generally, try the old version first before doing a lot of extra work.

DRI is one such project, and the stuff you're reading describes the installation of the newest DRI drivers. Since the card you've got is pretty mature, I don't think those should be necessary. This makes your life simpler. I could be wrong of course...

In order for DRI to work, you need three things:

1) A kernel driver loaded at boot time (or, at least, before X starts). Two kernel drivers, actually - agpgart for the mobo AGP support, and radeon for the vid card support. Do a su to root, then lsmod. If you see those two listed, you're cool. If not, add them to /etc/modules (as root, open that file in a text editor and add those two module names - if you don't know how to do that, do some googling). Then reboot, and do the lsmod again to check it out.

2) An XFree86 driver that works with the above kernel drivers. This part is probably taken care of, but you can check by opening /etc/X11/XF86Config (or XF86Config-4, or X-org.conf - do an ls /etc/X11 and pick the one that looks right). In the "Device" section, there should be a "Driver "radeon"" line. If not, change whatever driver is there to radeon instead.

3) A section of the above config file that tells the system to use DRI. At the top of the file, there should be a bunch of "Load" lines in the "Module" section. Make sure that there a line for each of "glx" and "dri". At the bottom of the file, you need a separate section (which may already exist), that says

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection


Restart the X server (or the system) after making those changes.


Those steps should set you up with main branch of DRI support. You can check by doing glxinfo (maybe as root) and looking for a line that says something like "Direct Rendering: yes".

edit: In fact, I'd run that glxinfo before you start - SuSE really should have done this already.

edit again: In case it wasn't clear - you should not have to install anything. All the software you need for the main branch of DRI is already on your system.
 

n0cmonkey

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Heh, I didn't realize there was a "problem" here. X.org and XFree86 comes with a Radeon driver, I imagine it works just fine with a 7500.
 

zayened

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@cleverhandle: this is a notebook and does not have an agp port. glxinfo says "Direct Rendering: No."

@n0cmonkey: KDE 3.2, which is what came pre installed with Suse 9.1, didnt have my video card supported. When I tried to install the driver, it told me there was a problem and wouldnt install. it is because i have version 4.3 and not 4.2 of KDE. does anybody know when Suse 9.3 is going to be released??
 

Nothinman

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Wheee! We're linux zealots - why answer a technical question when we can talk about Iraq instead?

Doesn't that seem rather backwards?

@cleverhandle: this is a notebook and does not have an agp port. glxinfo says "Direct Rendering: No."

I doubt your video card isn't on an AGP bus, unless it's PCI-E.

@n0cmonkey: KDE 3.2, which is what came pre installed with Suse 9.1, didnt have my video card supported. When I tried to install the driver, it told me there was a problem and wouldnt install. it is because i have version 4.3 and not 4.2 of KDE. does anybody know when Suse 9.3 is going to be released??

You seem to be mixing and matching software and version numbers. I have no doubt that you have KDE 3.2, but the version of KDE is irrelevant when it comes to drivers. If SuSe did come with XFree 4.3 I highly doubt you want to go backwards to 4.2 and even if you did it would be a huge amount of work even for an experienced person.
 

n0cmonkey

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Originally posted by: zayened
@cleverhandle: this is a notebook and does not have an agp port. glxinfo says "Direct Rendering: No."

@n0cmonkey: KDE 3.2, which is what came pre installed with Suse 9.1, didnt have my video card supported. When I tried to install the driver, it told me there was a problem and wouldnt install. it is because i have version 4.3 and not 4.2 of KDE. does anybody know when Suse 9.3 is going to be released??

It was released yesterday.

There isn't a 4.3 or 4.2 version of KDE yet.

The ati driver has existed in XFree86 and X.org for a while now, I'm not sure what the problem is.
 

Raincity

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Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: zayened
@cleverhandle: this is a notebook and does not have an agp port. glxinfo says "Direct Rendering: No."

@n0cmonkey: KDE 3.2, which is what came pre installed with Suse 9.1, didnt have my video card supported. When I tried to install the driver, it told me there was a problem and wouldnt install. it is because i have version 4.3 and not 4.2 of KDE. does anybody know when Suse 9.3 is going to be released??

It was released yesterday.

There isn't a 4.3 or 4.2 version of KDE yet.

The ati driver has existed in XFree86 and X.org for a while now, I'm not sure what the problem is.


Suse 9.3 release Novell is shooting for is April 14. Its still in beta. Some of the websites jump the gun on this one.
 
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