Re: ATI Radeon 8500 & Woody
On Sunday 25 August 2002 02:34, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> 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.....
I have read _rumors_ (on Rage3D) that the 9700 will have Linux drivers.
Oh, and the ATI rpm's were a royal PITA last time I tried them. IMHO,
the best thing for r200 users would be to install XFree 4.2 and use the
latest DRI drivers. If you want xvideo working, though, you'll have to
get the CVS branch and patch it.
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