Well, today I managed to get my Radeon 9xxx working w/ Mandrake 9.2 beta 2!
Now, when I say "working" , I mean with high performance OpenGL support using the FireGL drivers. The issue has long been ATi not releasing drivers for Xfree86 4.3.0, but Schneider Digital has Xfree86 4.3.0 drivers: http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/download_ati.html For most people these drivers work great, unless ... you have a KT400 chipset. With the KT400 chipset, you'll continually get errors when X starts up stating "unable to determine aperture size". Anyways, after some digging around on google, I found this site: http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/ This site contains a patch for that ATi driver, and it works quite well as long as you follow the simple steps closely. Summary of files I used: GLX1_LINUX_X4.3.ZIP (this extracts into an RPM,and a README) fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.5.1.i586-kt400agp3.patch My hardware: Athlon XP 1800+ 512 MB DDR PC333 ATI Radeon 9500 ECS L7VTA mainboard (KT400 chipset) I'm off to benchmark UT2K3 now. :-) -- Nicholas Bolibruch - afxgrin Public Key - http://www.afxgrin.com/my_key.txt
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