Just my $.02, but Im gonna stay away from ATI, at least for now. Thier 'drivers' are a half-ass attempt, especially when you see the nvidia drivers install with 0 effort.
Tips, check DRI website dri.sourceforge.net, make sure you have the latest X version, and good luck... On October 22, 2003 04:46 pm, Jon Copeland wrote: > great! > > got the 3com card working but everytime i reboot i have to keep running > 'make load' or 'insmod 3c2000' to make it work, no train smash but its > workable nonetheless. im looking now to the 'ethernet how-to' to figure out > how to make it load with modules.conf > > got the radeon 9800 working too but without any 3d acceleration and > unfortunately screen fonts dont look too nice, very jagged edges and > antialiasing doesnt work with the fonts in the YaST control panel appy. > once again no biggy but reading webpages is a pain. > > i tried suse 9.0 evaluation earlier and it plays nicely with the 3com nic, > and it 'appears' to like the radeon until X is loaded then all X hell > breaks loose. > > its really not the hardware at all, i feel that given some time all this > so-called new H/W (radeon, SATA, p4 HT cpu etc) will become generic and > every distro of linux will work hundreds with them. > > -j- > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Graham Monk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 3:43 PM > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) suse 8.2 ... again > > > I think at the very least you need the latest xfree 4.3.0...? > I seem to remember something about that for the later > Radeon cards when trying to get my IGP320m working > on my laptop. > try looking uo xfre.org and googling for xfree & radeon 9800 > etc > > Graham > > On Tuesday 21 October 2003 21:52, you wrote: > > hi all, > > > > i'm having loads of fun messing around with suse but i'm having 2 minor > > problems which i can't resolve. > > > > 1 - i cant get the 3d acceleration to work with the ATI radeon 9800 pro, > > any configuration changes simply don't work, i've followed ATI's linux > > driver instructions down to the 'T' and i'm having no joy. > > 2 - i cant get the 3com gigabit nic (3c2000) to work which is integrated > > onto the P4C800 mobo, once again following the instructions perfectly but > > no hope in sight. > > > > *official* support from suse/ati/3com do not exist for the problem's im > > experiencing so i'm almost at the point of doing something rather rash. > > > > if anyone has had experience in installing the 3d component of the radeon > > series, PLEASE i ask for your help! > > > > other than that any suggestions will be very much appreciated. > > > > thanks > > > > -j-
