Including radeonhd in beta?

[Christopher Brown]

On 12/02/2008, Fastie <fastie81 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Yes I do agree. The radeon driver is worst. I had the same problem, after
> installing the radeonhd driver everything worked fine.
> May be a better move than sticking to the radeon driver.
> Chris
>
>
>
>  On Feb 12, 2008 2:02 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> > I noticed (and it was pointed out here previously) that the radeonhd
> > driver was not included in the alpha iso. I have an R530 based video
> > card that ended up being handled by the radeon driver which then failed,
> > so that X wouldn't start. I had to manually set the driver to vesa to
> > get it to work. Due to some other problems I haven't had a chance to test
> > the radeonhd driver (and won't get another chance until tomorrow), but it
> > seems it could have hardly have been worse using it than what actually
> > happened.
> > In my opinion it seems like it would be better to include it than not
> > (unless it causes problems for cards that are supported by the radeon
> > driver).

Nope, Radeonhd is a separate effort by Suse and will most likely soon
be surpassed by ongoing RHT efforts. For more information see:

http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=81

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Cheers

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Christopher Brown

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