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Hi,
I installed new card on ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 motherboard. Before I was using integrated ATI Radeon HD 4290 GPU.
I wander if anything has do be done in OpenSuse 11.4 for the new hardware(corresponding to installing new drivers in Windows XP)?
Thanks for reading.
From the ATI website, it seems that they have the same drivers for 5x and 4x series of the Radeon graphic card. You might want to reconfigure the display if it is giving issues. Else it looks good to go.
From the ATI website, it seems that they have the same drivers for 5x and 4x series of the Radeon graphic card. You might want to reconfigure the display if it is giving issues. Else it looks good to go.
Hi Nooneknowme, thanks for your post.
You mention configuring display - is this function part of Desktop Settings or Yast?
btw .. are you facing any issues in your display ?
Thanks for your reply again.
At the moment I am using only Windows XP - OpenSuse is on another partition. I would like to know where to look - before I start
using it.
Thanks again! It saves me time and digging on Internet.
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Uuups. SAX2 is deprecated and won't be part of any reasonably recent SuSE.
There are several drivers around for ATI (ati, radeon, radeonhd, fglrx). SuSE installs radeon as a default -- which has no 3D capabilities e.g. for gaming. If you use fglrx (AMD/ATI's non-open-source version) you have an utility for any screen configuring (something like aticonfig or so). You'll find more information at the AMD/ATI web site. Else use YAST or KDE's utility.
Hi,
I installed new card on ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 motherboard. Before I was using integrated ATI Radeon HD 4290 GPU.
I wander if anything has do be done in OpenSuse 11.4 for the new hardware(corresponding to installing new drivers in Windows XP)?
Thanks for reading.
If the new video card is in the same slot as the old one, it's very likely you won't have to change a single thing.
There are several drivers around for ATI (ati, radeon, radeonhd, fglrx). SuSE installs radeon as a default -- which has no 3D capabilities e.g. for gaming.
I must imagine running nexuiz, openarena, ut2004, doom3, CivIV, Half-Life 2, Trine, etc. with the 'radeon' driver then.
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@ adamk75
1. (S)he wrote "I was using integrated ATI Radeon HD 4290 GPU". That's in the chip set then. Which means not in a slot at all. And the new card has a 5000-series chip as opposed to the previously used 4000-series graphic part in the chip set.
2. Huh? What was your problem here "...which has no 3D capabilities e.g. for gaming"? Didn't I imply that you'd need 3D?
1. (S)he wrote "I was using integrated ATI Radeon HD 4290 GPU". That's in the chip set then. Which means not in a slot at all. And the new card has a 5000-series chip as opposed to the previously used 4000-series graphic part in the chip set.
Ahhh, you do raise a good point about the new card being on a slot when the old one wasn't. Still, that will only be a problem if the OP was using the catalyst drivers and if their xorg.conf file specified a BusID in the Device section. In which case, they will need to either change that BusID or use 'aticonfig' to create a new xorg.conf file.
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2. Huh? What was your problem here "...which has no 3D capabilities e.g. for gaming"? Didn't I imply that you'd need 3D?
You said that the radeon driver has no 3D capabilities for gaming. This is not true. All those games I listed (plus others) work with the radeon driver. Is the catalyst/fglrx driver faster at 3D? Sure. But to say that radeon has no 3D capabilities is wrong.
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