Re: Radeon 9000 Pro anyone?

[Haralambos Geortgilakis <haralambos@ihug.co.nz>]

HI All & Peter,

Whoops, I meant to type in 9000, in a crucial sentence & did not....

Just to bee clear, I have a Power Color Radeon 9000 Pro 128 & the DRI 
stuff gets it going in Tux!

Now, download & enjoy!  :-)

*BFN*

Greek Geek  :-)



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Peter S Galbraith wrote:

> Haralambos Geortgilakis <haralambos@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
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> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > some Debianista's gets it a going with the ATI drivers & some not....
> >
> > Surf thru this lists archive 
> >    
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> Didn't find anything in recent months anyway concerning the 9000.
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> >                             or have a look at the forums @ ....
> >
> > http://www.rage3d.com/
> >
> > Personally, after much coffee, conjecture & cursing, I got my Radeon 128meg
> > Pro up, with drivers from....
> >
> > http://dri.sourceforge.net/
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> Interesting, but they don't state that it supports the 9000 Pro (It
> stops at 8500/R200).  You have a 9000 Pro?  This works with XFree 4.2.1?
>
> Thanks!
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> > > My brother gave me a 128MB Radeon 9000 Pro for Christmas to replace my
> > > aging 8MB Matrox G200.  Does anyone here have one?
> > >
> > > For drivers, ATI distributes a binary RPM package here:
> > >
> > > http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html
> > >
> > > which says: "Fixed in this driver:
> > >
> > > * fglrxconfig program lists Radeon 9000 Pro and 9500 Pro."
> > >
> > > Has anyone tried it?  Did you simply use `alien' to convert the RPM
> > > package?
> > >
> > > I hear that the card will be supported under XFree 4.3, due out soon
> > > (except I'll have to wait for Debian packages, or figure out which
> > > binaries to drop in place).
> > >
> > > I also found this:
> > > http://home.t-online.de/home/hburde/linux.html
> > > which says "The simple, 2nd solution is to fake a Radeon 8500 which is
> > > supported and compatible with the Radeon 9000." and provides a
> > > XF86Config file 'driver section'.
> > >
> > > I'm reluctant to pull-out my old Matrox until I know the new card will
> > > work.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any advice!
> > >      
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