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Re: Radeon 9000 Pro anyone?



Haralambos Geortgilakis <haralambos@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> some Debianista's gets it a going with the ATI drivers & some not....
> 
> Surf thru this lists archive 

Didn't find anything in recent months anyway concerning the 9000.

>                              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/

Interesting, but they don't state that it supports the 9000 Pro (It
stops at 8500/R200).  You have a 9000 Pro?  This works with XFree 4.2.1?

Thanks!

> >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!



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