KDE distro with ATI support?

[Humble_Phenom]

Hey guys,

I didn't know where to post this, but I hope I get an answer. I'm not new to Linux, but I'm not a super user either. I've been distro hopping for years, until I found Mandriva 2010. I love it, but whenever I install the ATI drivers I get a Kwin has crashed error every time I start up. So I tried openSuse 11.2, it's a pleasant distro implements KDE well, but I got the same results with openSuse.

My question to you guys is, what current KDE distro has the best support for ATI cards? Or is there a way to get either KDE or openSuse working correctly? I've tried everything I found in other forums to no avail.

My specs:

XFX HD Radeon 4770
AMD Athlon II X4 625
2 GB of Ram

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You all.

[amenditman]

sidux

The forum at sidux.com has several posts by ATI owner's raving about 3D working with the open radeon driver.

The thread is Happy days for ATI owners
View topic - Happy days for ATi owners :: sidux.com :: debian based live cd development

[reed9]

Unfortunately, the open source drivers do not yet support 3D acceleration for all ATI cards. The poster's card is not listed as support on the radeon website.
DRI Wiki - ATIRadeon

So I believe it does require the proprietary Catalyst driver.

[Humble_Phenom]

Thank You for your prompt responses. After looking around again, I've got the propriety drivers working on Mandriva 2010 without any problems thus far.

[daark.child]

Mandriva and openSUSE are great KDE centric distros with good hardware support so those are usually worth trying if your distro of choice does not support your hardware.

[penguin2]

Mandriva and openSUSE are great KDE centric distros with good hardware support so those are usually worth trying if your distro of choice does not support your hardware.

OpenSUSE sucks at supporting the open source radeon driver especially applicable to 3D and enabling desktop effects. I know that 11.2 doesn't work too well for me and an xorg.conf file needs to be created and edited in order to have 3D. Mandriva 2010 is good and it's already set up and working. Why OpenSUSE cannot figure out what Mandriva does and have a write-up what to do, I have no idea. Ubuntu 9.10 has a similar problem but it seems Ubuntu 10.04 have made changes which have resulted in improvements.