Re: ATI Radeon 7000
On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 02:28, user list wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:48:30PM +1200, James Kahn wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 14:02, user list wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:55:32AM +1200, James Kahn wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 08:52, Mike Frisch wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 03:29:58PM -0500, Brandt Dusthimer wrote:
> > > > > > Hrm... so your saying that there is no support for the 7500 in 4.1?
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status6.html
> > > > >
> > > > > Apparently there's no accelerated X server support in 4.1.0.
> > > >
> > > > No, but there is a patch to make it work on 4.1.0. It didn't apply
> > > > cleanly when I ran it against a relatively new version of the debian
> > > > sources, but it's pretty small so easy to apply yourself.
> > > >
> > > Does the patch work for an 8500 as well? I'm having major problems with gnome
> > > under the deb's for 4.2.0. Lot's of things don't work anymore.
> >
> > What is it with people and not reading the links? Yes, if you look at
> > the patch it certainly looks like it makes the 8500 work. I don't know
> > personally, I own a 7500.
> >
> Reading with mutt makes me less likely to do the cut and paste. Anyway,
> if the link to which you refer is
>
> http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status6.html
That's not the link I was referring to.
> That really doesn't help. It does talk about support for Radeon Chips, but
> because it is dated it refers to all Radeon chips that existed at that time.
>
> So, what would the patch file look like (i. e. its name, location, and asso-
> ciated files)?
I was talking about
http://groups.google.co.nz/groups?selm=20011229222635.GA6299%40bougon.org&output=gplain
which was actually in the email you replied to (look below).
> Thanks,
>
> Art
> > Strange you have problems with gnome, I installed XFree86 4.2.0 (from
> > source) in parallel with 4.1.0 and have had no problems whatsoever.
> > Sounds like those debs you are using are broken. X on debian is so
> > complicated I'd stick with Branden's...
>
> I think that might be the case. Interestingly there is what appears to
> be a signature with Branden's name on it.
> >
> > > > http://groups.google.co.nz/groups?selm=20011229222635.GA6299%40bougon.org&output=gplain
> >
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