Hi,

Does anyone know if it possible to downgrade xorg from 7.2 in Suse 10.2 rc1 to 7.1 so that I can use the ati driver..?

Thanks in advance.

This most probably can't be done. They have changed many of the default directories in xorg 7.2 so you would need to compile most of the packages.

Novell did a "great" decision by using a nonstable X server on this goldmaster. Come on, this really sucks. Ati just can't do anything about the support for xorg 7.2 because it isn't even released ( release date 11 of december) .

You will just have to wait and see. Im in the same boat with you, and as said before, this is my last ATI card anyways...

I was thinking it would be a good idea to upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2. it indeed is, if one likes all the windows menus and all the other stuff not really needed,....*g

ok. I had the same problem with my ati x1400 since ati does not support xorg 7.2. There is a way to fix it. But indeed you just have to force rpm to install the following 3 or 4 packages (I used the 10.1 xorg 6.9 packages):

xorg-x11-Xnest
xorg-x11-driver-video
xorg-x11-server
xorg-x11-server-glx

since xorg 7.2 there is an additional package xorg-x11-driver-input. input was included in another package in the earlier xorg versions. you only have to remove the above 7.2 packages including xorg-x11-driver-input and install the above mentioned 6.9 or 7.1 packages.

in addition you will have to make a new symbolic link to /usr/bin/xorg (I am not sure if the directory is correct) since the directory of xorg was changed to user (see also opensuse release tips); otherwise kdm would not start...

for me it worked fine, the only problem is, that I can't change the keyboard settings... perhaps I find a solution soon...

there is an howto on en.opensuse.org/ATI or something like that. it works not perfect but at list one can use 1280x800 again....