D F wrote:
3D works for my Radeon 32M ddr (QD) out-of-the-box on 9.0 but not on the latest cooker nor, for that matter, with 2.4.20-ac1, built with a Mandrake config, on 9.0. Non-accelerated XFree works in both those cases. I wonder if the kernel has something to do with it?On January 11, 2003 10:40, Buchan Milne wrote:In my experience, and a few others I have helped (Mandrakeclub I think), Mandrake 8.2 and Mandrake 9.0 don't have a working X configuration out-the-box on a Radeon, and no newbie (maybe we need a new term, such as new customer ;-)) would be able to get it working, and would probably change distros (Rh 7.3 and 8.0 worked fine, with DRI) or revert to Windows. Even Knoppix had working DRI. I am less worried about DRI, but any user *MUST* get a working GUI if they so chose. This probably wouldn't help the Radeon users, but how about having X fall back to the vesa driver if it fails? I mean, really, Windows95 did this. And if that's not viable, then at least start up XFdrake (not that it would help NVidia users ...). AFAICR, even RH 6.1 did this (well, XConfigurator instead of XFdrake). Buchan
Hmmmm... Perhaps I'm unusual but I had a working Radeon 7500 installation with 3d accel out of the box on 9.0
Rolf
