Re: Radeon X600

[Matt Barry <muramas@cyberdiscordia.org>]

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:51 +0100, Lee Redmayne wrote:
>
> I've just got a lovely new beastie which has a PCI-Express Asus Radeon X600
> in it... Running Sarge 2.6.8-1.i386 and XF86 4.3.0.1, P4 "530", 512MB, 80GB
> SATA drive etc etc..

I had a similar experience when I got my shiny new Asus X800 XT.. ATI's
official drivers (proprietary) do not yet support their PCIE products;
neither does XFree86 (as far as I was able to tell).

My solution was to install x.org from source; this may work for you as
well (no 3d support, but 2d works quite well).  You can find a
reasonable description of how to do this non-intrusively
(into /usr/local) at this site:
http://incubator.vislab.usyd.edu.au/roller/page/Steve?catname=Debian

There are some comments below (myself and others) on how to integrate it
with Debian (ie. make things like gdm/startx work seamlessly).