On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:48 AM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com <stompdagg...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>On Die, 2012-12-11 at 01:45 -0800, stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote: >>> >On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 11:33 -0800, stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote: >>> >> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:16 PM, <olivier.e.am...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >> >> When starting openSuse 12.2, the X-server terminates with a >>> >> segmentation fault (see attached log file). >>> >> >>> >> >The open source driver should support your card just fine. Can >>> you >>> >> >install debugging symbols and get a proper backtrace with GDB? >>> >> >http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging >>> >> >>> >> Alex, looking at his log, I don't see the card in the support list, >>> >> his card is the v7700? >>> >>> >As you can see in the lspci output, it's a 7500, which is Turks >>> >(Northern Islands generation) based. >>> >>> >If the driver didn't support the card, it would bail much earlier. >>> >>> looking at the xorg log, I see Turks only as part of the AMD Radeon HD >>> 6700 Series, does this means that 7500 Series is part of the 6700 >>> Series? > >>It's complicated. :\ > >>7xx0 and 6xx0 are marketing names, which are mostly irrelevant for >>driver support, in contrast to code names such as Turks, Northern >>Islands etc. > > I see, so maybe it is a good idea to fix the radeon output? if I had this > problem, I'd assume that the driver doesn't supports the card, this would > have wasted a lot of time.
Marketing and OEMs come up with so many different names, it's hard to keep track. Best bet it to look at the pci ids, or check wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ati_gpu Alex _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com