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Compiz without fglrx on openSUSE 11.1
by cyberorg, Monday, September 29th, 2008 @ 7:45 pm

Great news for the owners of on-board Radeon X1200/1250 Series graphics, fglrx is not required to run Compiz. We can finally become completely “free”. We are using open source radeonhd drivers developed by SUSE engineers on the latest Xorg release.

Changed the following in xorg.conf and viola Compiz is running here!!

Section “Device”
Option “DRI” “1″ #and this works even with radeonhd drivers

Thanks to whoever is responsible for this :)

Update: Sndirsch just informs that this will be default on openSUSE 11.1, so probably right  from Beta 2 Compiz should work out of box on the hardwares using radeonhd drivers.


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  1. : arpia49, September 30, 2008 @ 12:44 am

    Can you tell us xorg-xserver version ?

    Thanks!

  2. : cyberorg, September 30, 2008 @ 7:01 am

    xorg 7.4 (1.5)

  3. : larryfroot, September 30, 2008 @ 12:22 pm

    Whoa! That’s pretty damn cool! Will it work for a HD 4870 running with the catalyst 8.9 drivers? Because if it does then it makes my week. Big thanks for the heads up.

  4. : cyberorg, September 30, 2008 @ 12:24 pm

    This post is talking about compiz without fglrx/catalyst drivers, using open source radeonhd drivers.

    Don’t know if HD 4870 is supported by radeonhd, if it is you dont need amd’s drivers at all.

  5. : larryfroot, September 30, 2008 @ 5:55 pm

    Duh! Thanks, I will check it out.

  6. : arpia49, October 1, 2008 @ 1:29 am

    Thnx for the info cyberorg ;)

  7. : luis enrique romero bañtazar, October 2, 2008 @ 2:32 pm

    grasias por el pakete se te agradece

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  9. : cong, October 7, 2008 @ 4:06 pm

    Thanks for the info. I wonder if Radeon X1300 is supported as well?

  10. : liangsuilong, October 20, 2008 @ 1:06 pm

    you should install ati catalyst 8.10 driver, and the driver supports xorg 7.4(1.5)

  11. : jlc, November 2, 2008 @ 5:36 pm

    I tried it on an x300 and here is the list of supported devices.

    (II) RADEONHD: X driver for the following AMD GPG (ATI) graphics devices:
    RV505 : Radeon X1550, X1550 64bit.
    RV515 : Radeon X1300, X1550, X1600; FireGL V3300, V3350.
    RV516 : Radeon X1300, X1550, X1550 64-bit, X1600; FireMV 2250.
    R520 : Radeon X1800; FireGL V5300, V7200, V7300, V7350.
    RV530 : Radeon X1300 XT, X1600, X1600 Pro, X1650; FireGL V3400, V5200.
    RV535 : Radeon X1300, X1650.
    RV550 : Radeon X2300 HD.
    RV560 : Radeon X1650.
    RV570 : Radeon X1950, X1950 GT; FireGL V7400.
    R580 : Radeon X1900, X1950; AMD Stream Processor.
    R600 : Radeon HD 2900 GT/Pro/XT; FireGL V7600/V8600/V8650.
    RV610 : Radeon HD 2350, HD 2400 Pro/XT, HD 2400 Pro AGP; FireGL V4000.
    RV620 : Radeon HD 3450, HD 3470.
    RV630 : Radeon HD 2600 LE/Pro/XT, HD 2600 Pro/XT AGP; Gemini RV630;
    FireGL V3600/V5600.
    RV635 : Radeon HD 3650, HD 3670.
    RV670 : Radeon HD 3690, 3850, HD 3870, FireGL V7700, FireStream 9170.
    R680 : Radeon HD 3870 X2.
    M52 : Mobility Radeon X1300.
    M54 : Mobility Radeon X1400; M54-GL.
    M56 : Mobility Radeon X1600; Mobility FireGL V5200.
    M58 : Mobility Radeon X1800, X1800 XT; Mobility FireGL V7100, V7200.
    M62 : Mobility Radeon X1350.
    M64 : Mobility Radeon X1450, X2300.
    M66 : Mobility Radeon X1700, X1700 XT; FireGL V5250.
    M68 : Mobility Radeon X1900.
    M71 : Mobility Radeon HD 2300.
    M72 : Mobility Radeon HD 2400; Radeon E2400.
    M74 : Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT.
    M76 : Mobility Radeon HD 2600;
    (Gemini ATI) Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT.
    M82 : Mobility Radeon HD 3400.
    M86 : Mobility Radeon HD 3650, HD 3670, Mobility FireGL V5700.
    M88 : Mobility Radeon HD 3850, HD 3850 X2, HD 3870, HD3870 X2.
    RS600 : Radeon Xpress 1200, Xpress 1250.
    RS690 : Radeon X1200, X1250, X1270.
    RS740 : RS740, RS740M.
    RS780 : Radeon HD 3100/3200/3300 Series.
    RV770 : Radeon HD 4800 Series; Everest, K2, Denali ATI FirePro.

    (II) RADEONHD: version 1.2.3, built from dist of git branch master, commit efaebb70

  12. : Andre, February 5, 2009 @ 12:16 pm

    I’m stick on my openSUSE 11.0 and ATi Radeon Xpress 200M
    What would I do to become “free” using radeonhd?

    Thanks before.


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