[Novalug] Upgrade story ...

Varol Okan varokan@movingsatellites.com
Wed Feb 13 07:36:13 EST 2008


Greg,

I will check those out and see if I get any further. Thanks for the links.

Varol :)

greg pryzby wrote:
> Search moosy
>
> http://moosy.blogspot.com/
> he is da man for most stuff SUSE (and pretty sure he isn't an employee)
>
> http://moosy.blogspot.com/2008/01/ati-linux-driver-update.html
> for 10.3 ati (maybe 11 also)
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/Compiz_Fusion
> http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/
>
> But haven't found much around compiz-fusion. I would check out IRC
>
> On 2/12/08, *varokan* <varokan@movingsatellites.com 
> <mailto:varokan@movingsatellites.com>> wrote:
>
>     Upgrade story ...
>
>     Okay I had the itch for a long time to get upgrade from my 10.2
>     install
>     of SuSE to a more recent OS.
>
>     On my amd64 Compaq Laptop ( ATI Radeon XPress 200M ) I had everything
>     working from wifi to sound to accel radeon driver and BERYL.
>
>     I tried 10.3 first and had the system up in no time. But then the
>     horror
>     started whilst trying to get compiz-fusion to work on it. I also
>     noticed
>     that ndiswrapper was sometimes causing lock-ups.
>     I know I had fglrx working as I saw the framerate of glxgears jump
>     from
>     ~600 to ~1200. Xgl was also working without compiz-fusion.
>
>     After two days unsuccessful trial-and-error (somehow compiz-fusion
>     does
>     not like to play with Xgl on my laptop ) I gave in and tried Kubuntu.
>
>     I played with Kubuntu for about 4 hours and gave up on it. I am sure
>     that given more time I would have gotten the system to the point where
>     SuSE 10.3 left off but why I asked myself, why should I continue here
>     only to end up with another failed install.
>
>     So off I went to pull SuSE 11Alpha2 off the web ( oh yeah I am sure my
>     ISP enjoyed all the traffic of the past few days ). The installation
>     went smooth and to my surprise it kept my home directory around ( my
>     root dir is on a separate partition )
>
>     Booting up I found myself presented with KDE4.0. KDE4.0 looks nice and
>     it might help me get over my still missing compiz-fusion. At some
>     point
>     I might get adventurous  again and try  to set it up.
>
>     Has any one here compiz-fusion working on a Radeon Xpress ? If so, let
>     me know what / how you did it.
>     BTW, the driver that used to work in 10.2 does not compile with newer
>     SuSE versions.
>
>     Varol Okan
>
>
>
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