Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, [ISO-8859-2] Martin MOKREJ© wrote:
Martin MOKREJ© wrote:
Actually, I didn't know earlier but the "radeon" should not continue but make X rather die as I
have AGP 9200 card, and that's actually the reason why I have to use "ati" as driver. The naming
is bad, but empirically I have figured out which drier works and aslo gives DRI.
The credit goes to Philipp Klaus Krause from dri-users list:
"radeon" is the driver for the Radeon 7000 series cards. "ati" is the
one for Radeon 8500 to 9200.
????
Last time I looked, ati was a wrapper driver which used one of
the drivers "mach64", "r128" or "radeon" as appropriate,
and "radeon" was appropriate for all Radeon cards.
Has someone been playing around ?
Or have you got different versions of the ati and radeon drivers ?
No, but simply if user is stupid and types according to docs saying
something like "put on the Driver relevant driver for your card, like vesa",
one usually knows ... I have Radeon 9200, OK, let's use "radeon" as it seems
it does exist.
So, when I used "radeon" directly, it caused by system to lockup, LCD display
complaining it is out of sync. I propose to modify radeon driver in a way it would
refuse to start on cards other than 7000 series.
There is also the drver from ATI, I've forgotten what that is called.
Yes, I know, I don't use them. The utility is fglrxconfig(1) distributed along
with them. :)
Come to thing of it, the XFree86 radeon driver only support hardware
3D/GL/DRI for older Radeon cards; maybe that is what Philipp Klaus Krause
meant ?
Yes. But that has explained why my system locks because I should use "ati"
instead of "radeon". You found here the clocks in modelines were screwed up,
and I can tell you in addition the system has locked always.
So, once more, "radeon" should kill X server correctly on startup if
Radeon 8500-9200 is detected on the relevant bus.
I hope I'm clearer now. ;)
Martin
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