ATI graphic chipset overview

From Phoronix forum: 
 The proprietary drivers are developed internally and released as a
single package. Open source drivers, on the other hand, are developed in
public repositories with one repository (and driver) for each of the
four main components. You need an appropriate version of each component
to get a working driver stack. Normally your distros will take care of
packaging an appropriate set of open source driver components:: 
 1. X driver - xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati aka "radeon" 
 2. kernel driver aka drm - in the Linux kernel tree 
 3. kernel usermode library aka libdrm - mesa/drm 
 4. 3D driver - mesa/mesa 
 Your card belongs to the evergreen family, which people like to call
r800 even though we don't call it r800 ourselves 
 For the X and kernel drivers a single driver covers all radeon
products from rv100 to Evergreen. The 3D driver has 4 different versions
depending on the GPU generation - radeon (r100 family), r200 (r200
family), r300 (r300-r500 families) and r600 (r600-evergreen
families). 
 There are also "classic" and "gallium" implementations of the 3D
drivers but I suggest you ignore that distinction for now. 
 What should you do ? Basically there are two options : 
 - experiment with some settings to get rid of the black boxes on
Firefox etc.. (look for "force XAA") 
 - uninstall the fglrx driver and start building the right versions of
open source drivers for your hardware (normally they would ship in the
distro but evergreen support in the open source drivers is fairly
recent). 
 There are "xorg-edgers" packages available for Ubuntu/Debian distros
which give you the very latest open source driver components in an
easy-to-use form but I don't know if there is an equivalent offered for
SuSE. 
 I would start by forcing XAA with the fglrx driver and see how that
works for you. 
 old 
 The radeonhd driver supports video cards based on the following ATI
chips: 
 
 RV505: Radeon X1550, X1550 64bit 
 RV515: Radeon X1300, X1550, X1600; FireGL V3300, V3350 
 RV516: Radeon X1300, X1550, X1550 64-bit, X1600; FireMV 2250 
 R520: Radeon X1800; FireGL V5300, V7200, V7300, V7350 
 RV530: Radeon X1300 XT, X1600, X1600 Pro, X1650; FireGL V3400,
V5200 
 RV535: Radeon X1300, X1650 
 RV550: Radeon X2300 HD 
 RV560: Radeon X1650 
 RV570: Radeon X1950, X1950 GT; FireGL V7400 
 R580: Radeon X1900, X1950; AMD Stream Processor 
 R600: Radeon HD 2900 GT/Pro/XT; FireGL V7600/V8600/V8650 
 RV610: Radeon HD 2350, HD 2400 Pro/XT, HD 2400 Pro AGP; FireGL
V4000 
 RV620: Radeon HD 3450, HD 3470 
 RV630: Radeon HD 2600 LE/Pro/XT, HD 2600 Pro/XT AGP; Gemini RV630;
FireGL V3600/V5600 
 RV635: Radeon HD 3650, HD 3670 
 RV670: Radeon HD 3850, HD 3870, FireGL V7700 
 RV680: Radeon HD 3870 X2 
 M52: Mobility Radeon X1300 
 M54: Mobility Radeon X1400; M54-GL 
 M56: Mobility Radeon X1600; Mobility FireGL V5200 
 M58: Mobility Radeon X1800, X1800 XT; Mobility FireGL V7100,
V7200 
 M62: Mobility Radeon X1350 
 M64: Mobility Radeon X1450, X2300 
 M66: Mobility Radeon X1700, X1700 XT; FireGL V5250 
 M68: Mobility Radeon X1900 
 M71: Mobility Radeon HD 2300 
 M72: Mobility Radeon HD 2400; Radeon E2400 
 M74: Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT 
 M76: Mobility Radeon HD 2600; (Gemini ATI) Mobility Radeon HD 2600
XT 
 M82: Mobility Radeon HD 3400 
 M86: Mobility Radeon HD 3600 
 RS690: Radeon X1200, X1250, X1270.