On Fri, 30 May 2003 the mental interface of Gabor Szekelyhidi told: Hi, > Hello, > > I just put an ATI Radeon (QD according to X) into my computer, and OpenGL > doesn't seem to work. Everything points to it working, the programs start, > but the screen remains black. I tried some games (armagetron for example) > and some simple pyopengl programs. Without DRI it works, just slowly. On > the DRI page I read that > > "The Radeon seems to have problems with certain early VIA chipsets. Your > best bet is to try and see if it works." > > I have an Abit KT7 which uses the VIA Apollo KT133 chipset. Should I > conclude that this is definitely the problem and there is nothing to do > about it, or is there some way in which I could make sure? I am running an Abit KT7 with a rv 250 (RADEON 9000 Pro). After backporting XFree86 4.3.0 to sarge and installing dri-trunk from cvs everything works perfect! $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16) 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08) 00:08.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 08) 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 If [Radeon 9000] (rev 01) 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Radeon 9000] (Secondary) (rev 01) Ciao Elimar -- Obviously the human brain works like a computer. Since there are no stupid computers humans can't be stupid. There are just a few running with Windows or even CE ;-)
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