Re: Radeon 9000 Pro anyone?
Hi Peter,
some Debianista's gets it a going with the ATI drivers & some not....
Surf thru this lists archive or have a look at the forums @ ....
http://www.rage3d.com/
Personally, after much coffee, conjecture & cursing, I got my Radeon
128meg Pro up, with drivers from....
http://dri.sourceforge.net/
I do wish ATI would improve there install software. There comeback is,
such as I can gather, Tuxian's are 1% of there customers & the
implication sounds like we should be gratefull for what we are given????
Ahhh, the sweet dilemma of turning a profit vs tending to your customers
needs.
Here is a copy of my XF86Config4 file also. You may need to customize
the monitor & mouse bits to your values. These will be in your current
config, I guess!
<snip>
### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the
# Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
#
# If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make
changes
# before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after the
# "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below.
#
# To change things within the debconf section, run the command:
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
# as root. Also see "How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated
# XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?" in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz.
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" #I tried to comment this out too, still no
loading ATI stuff :-(.
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Resolution" "144"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "radeon"
# Driver "ati"
VideoRam 131072
Option "AGPMode" "4"
# Option "ChipID 0x5159"
# BusID "PCI:01:00:0"
# BusID "PCI:01:00:1"
# Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 30-86
VertRefresh 50-160
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Video Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
### END DEBCONF SECTION
<snip>
*HTH* & xcuse the length folks :-)
Greek Geek :-)
Oxymoron of the day: Help Desk
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
My brother gave me a 128MB Radeon 9000 Pro for Christmas to replace my
aging 8MB Matrox G200. Does anyone here have one?
For drivers, ATI distributes a binary RPM package here:
http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html
which says:
"Fixed in this driver:
* fglrxconfig program lists Radeon 9000 Pro and 9500 Pro."
Has anyone tried it? Did you simply use `alien' to convert the RPM
package?
I hear that the card will be supported under XFree 4.3, due out soon
(except I'll have to wait for Debian packages, or figure out which
binaries to drop in place).
I also found this:
http://home.t-online.de/home/hburde/linux.html
which says "The simple, 2nd solution is to fake a Radeon 8500 which is
supported and compatible with the Radeon 9000." and provides a
XF86Config file 'driver section'.
I'm reluctant to pull-out my old Matrox until I know the new card will
work.
Thanks for any advice!
Peter
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