Installation problem of AMD Radeon GPU drivers on openSUSE-13.2 in Dell Inspiron 14 5447

[sling-shot]

This was true till ~2 years back. The open-source drivers now support Dynamic Power Management (DPM) under latest kernels, or basically in any Linux distribution of 2014. They're energy friendly and efficient now.

If by any chance DPM is not turned on for your chip, enable it by adding radeon.dpm=1 in the kernel boot line in grub.cfg.

Thank you for that info. I never knew that. Got to read some more about that.

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I understand that the driver itself is called radeon or ati while MESA is the underlying architecture/support libraries. Is that correct?

 

[skeletor]

^ yeah, MESA is the open-souce OpenGL library. It is being used by a lot of open source drivers. Even Intel's official driver is using it. So, there is no such useless thing as "reduced video quality, colour reproduction". These are not the things to worry about imo.

The driver is called radeon for HD 2000 to HD 6000 cards. It is called radeonsi for HD 7000 and Rx cards.

xf86-video-ati is the wrapper for both drivers. Contains them both.