Re: ATI Radion video card
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:03:15AM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone gotten XFree86 up and running with an ATI Radion video card.
> I just did an install on Friday and once again X has got me stumped.
>
> Any tips, hints, words of wisdom, or random thoughts would be greatly
> appreciated.
You need to have a few things:
--Kernel--
* DRI driver for Radeon
* your mobo's AGP module
The above two have to be loaded before x starts. You need to use
kernel 2.4.8 or later (I think).
-- X configig --
For driver in X 4.1.xx just specify ATI and Radeon will be detected.
Make sure you install xlibmesa3 to get hardware accelerated OpenGL :)
If you don't enable the DRI and AGP in the kernel, you will not
get as good performance as you would otherwise. Without DRI, OpenGL
is rather slow..
Hope this helps,
Adam
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