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Re: Radeon 8500



Hi All & Chris,

who is a swine! ;-)

OK, now I've got that off my chest-let me xplain...
Your Radeon 8500 is "officially" supported by ATI-go to there site & download the drivers & install.
I am not sure how hard this will be, but I guess there is a howto or readme or some such with the download....
Now, I have a Radeon 9000 Pro & the dam thing has no "Official" drivers yet from ATI or XFree86. *frown*
There is a cludge, but I need to download XFree86 4.2.xx, from Debian "testing...."
Yes, it is odd that Debian did not find your card, but it does ship with a somewhat "dated" 4.1.0-16 version of XFRee86, so that may xplain that. 

*HTH* ?

*BFN*

Greek Geek :-)
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. -- Franklin P. Jones 


Chris wrote:


Hello,

 Im having no luck getting X to work with Debian(3). I have a ATI Radeon8500
card. I chose the 2.4 kernel at install time and chose to include the ati
module (I think).  Here is the end of my /var/log/XFree86.0.log file...
(snip)
(II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.3.6) for chipsets: ati, ativga
(II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets: ATI Rage 128 RE (PCI),
       ATI Rage 128 RF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RG (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RK (PCI),
       ATI Rage 128 RL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PD (PCI),
       ATI Rage 128 Pro PF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PP (PCI),
       ATI Rage 128 Pro PR (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Mobility LE (PCI),
       ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF (AGP),
       ATI Rage 128 Mobility ML (AGP)
(II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
       ATI Radeon QE (AGP), ATI Radeon QF (AGP), ATI Radeon QG (AGP),
       ATI Radeon VE (AGP)
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(II) ATI:  Candidate "Device" section "Generic Video Card".
(WW) ATI:  PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 could not be detected!
(EE) No devices detected.

  I dont know how to "detect" the device. This card is recognized at install
by Mandrake,Redhat, or slackware .. but I dont remember doing anything special
to get them working.

Thanks, Chris
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