Bug 118772

Summary:	Support ATI proprietary display drivers in sax
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Michael Stather <kontakt>
Component:	SaX2	Assignee:	Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 1
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Michael Stather 2005-09-26 11:42:56 UTC

I don´t know how is it with nvidia drivers, but SAX2 doesn´t support all the
options for the "fglrx" driver. I had a hand-written xorg.conf, and after
upgrade to RC1 I got a much shorter xorg.conf where much of the options for the
graphics driver had disappeared. If I click on "options" in SAX2 I only get 3 of
them, while the reade for the ATI driver shows much more.

Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2005-09-27 13:39:07 UTC

fglrx is due to license reasons not part of the 10.0 distribution. 
we are not supporting ATIs binary driver because of that reason. NVidia 
provides an installer and we are able to include the driver. 
 
I prepared configuration profiles which can be used like this: 
 
  sax2 -m 0=fglrx -b FGLRX_DualHead_DriverOptions -a 
 
this will produce a good base for using fglrx but is not supported

Comment 2 Michael Stather 2005-09-27 22:16:54 UTC

With "support" I don´t mean including the driver with the distro, but just
support it in SAX2. ATIs installer just installs the driver but it doesn´t
create the appropriate xorg.conf. Can´t you just provide an entry "ATI
proprietary driver (has to be installed)" in the SAX2 device selection list
which enables support for the "options". Most of the (power)users have to
install the proprietary driver anyway and so they can´t use SAX2 any more.