Re: XFree86 with Radeon problems
Apparently, on Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:23:46PM -0400, William C Brennan wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm trying to get my new G4 Quicksilver 800MHz to run XFree86. This
> machine comes with an ATI Radeon 7500 card. I've tried lots of
> options and searched over the list archives to get hints at what to
> do, but no success. Since I'm at a total loss at what to do (this
> XFree stuff has always totally taxed my ability to understand it... a
> great mystery) I submit my best guess at a XF86Config-4 file, and the
> resultant log when I tried to startx.
>
> I'm running the kernel 2.4.18-newpmac. I'm trying to use the radeon driver,
> but if this is not working yet, you would not insult my intelligence
> if you told
> me how to get the fb driver working. I never really understood how
> to configure it.
>
> Please help if you can. Thanks heaps!
>
The Radeon 7500 isn't supported until XFree 4.2.0 and there are no
Debian packages yet. You can probably get it working as a generic SVGA
device but you won't have the nice, accelrated 3D and all that good
stuff without XFree 4.2.0
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