Re: Radeon 7500 XFree86 support.
Apparently, on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 07:27:47PM -0800, Dmitriy wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 06:31:11PM -0500, Diarmuid Drew wrote:
> > I'm new to 3D, just upgraded my tseng ET6000 to a Radeon 7500.
> >
> > I'd like to get XFree86 4.1.0 to work, 2D would be nice, 3D would be "better
> > than a best thing on a Best tour of Best land" :)
> >
> > Trying to get the radeon driver loaded gives the error
> > "(EE) No devices detected" and the Fatal error "no screens found".
> > I get a " (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI unknown chipset (0x5157) rev 0" error when I
> > try the XFree86 -probeonly.
> >
> > Is the 7500 supported for 2D X, or do I re-install my ET6000 ?
> I never had a Radeon, but _IMO_ there is DRI mdoule in the kernel for
> Radeon.
>
> I do not know if it works with 7500, but you can try to investigate that.
>
> Somebody who uses ATI radeon should confirm that probably.
>
I don't have a Radeon card (yet) but I was just looking up info about it
on the XFree lists and it appears that support for it is only in the
XFree CVS right now. It should be included in the next official release.
I think you have to use the generic SVGA support if you have a current
XFree release.
--
Tim Moss
debian@to11.net
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