Re: ATI Radeon 8500 & Woody
I recently contacted ATI regarding their "drivers" for X, because I am
working on rebuilding my one machine and was deciding between the ATI 8500
and a Geforce Ti 4200 based card.
According to ATI their drivers are 2d only, and not supported by ATI. They
have no intentions of releasing anywhere near the support that NVIDIA has
with the Detonator Linux Drivers. Even for the upcoming 9700 which they
have stated will compete with NVIDIA on all levels. I guess just all levels
except Linux.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Lidakis" <nick.lidakis@verizon.net>
To: <ceidleigh@runbox.com>; "Debian Mailing List"
<debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 8500 & Woody
> ceidleigh@runbox.com wrote:
>
> >I have Woody installed, but alas, can't get X running. Using an ATI
Radeon
> >8500 and an ASUS P4B533 motherboard. Apparently XFree86 prior to V 4.2
does
> >not support my ATI card. Anyone have this combination and successfully
got it
> >working on a Woody box? Oh, I have tried, but no luck yet. Got the card
> >working with most distros I have tried - Libranet, Slackware, RH, and
> >Mandrake 9 Beta. But not Woody or OpenBSD and OpenBSD includes XFree
4.2.
> >But that is another story.
> >
> >
> >
> There are unofficial "unofficial" drivers for this card by ATI. Check
> the website under driver support. Though they only offer .rpm's, I have
> read that alien might do the trick. As fas as XFree drivers go, you can
> grab Brandens pre release 4.2 debs (rev 3 now) at
> http://people.debian.org/~branden/.
> They are very reliable on my x22 thinkpad (first with woody then
> upgraded to sid) and glx works like a charm on the ATI mobility Radeon
> card.
>
> No mention on the ATI site if their drivers support 3d.
>
> Now, if someone would only write a driver for a Radeon 9700 Pro..... lol
>
>
>
> Nick Lidakis
>
>
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