On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 15:04 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > My problem that I think matches a thread that dead-ended without solution at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06865.html > > One apparent difference is that KDM works. The problem only begins after > login, or if I run startx from runlevel 3 instead of logging in from KDM, but > I too am missing a line from dmesg that contains "...on minor 0". > > I'm using openSUSE 11.1 with 2.6.27. Hardware config and Xorg.0.log are at > http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/SUSE/111/p1ph1lvf-video.txt > > A longer problem description is at > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-xorg/2010-03/msg00000.html > > Knoppix 6.2.1 has no such problem. > http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/Xorg/xorg.conf-p1ph1lvf-knoppix621-radeon and > http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/Xorg/xorg.0.log-p1ph1lvf-knoppix621-radeon are > its xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log. > > Is there a way get the openSUSE radeon kernel module to recognize this 6 year > old "card" without compiling myself? It's pretty hard to believe that any > radeon this age would not be recognized on a major distro like openSUSE > released several years after the hardware was made.
That's what it looks like though; the Knoppix log file shows much newer versions of the kernel and X driver, those in openSUSE may just be too old for the hardware. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
