>From what I have seen, you need to try the XFree CVS to get the Radeon 7500 supported, and I think it's 2D only at the moment. Look in the dri-devel archive for more info (a few weeks ago I think).
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Karl David Meisterheim wrote: > Hello, > after many hours and running across the right info on the list archives, I > finally got DRI-CVS to compile per the compilation guide on the DRI > website. (that trailing space on teh project directory got me for a while > too) > > I proceeded to the installation steps on the compilation guide and find > myself stuck one again, here's the lowdown > > Mandrake 8.1 (never could get it to compile with redhat 7.2) > kernel 2.4.16 > ATI Radeon 7500 AGP > DRI-CVS xc sources as of 12/27/01 > Soyo Dragon+ mb (Taht's a Via266a chipset I believe) > Athlon XP > > I compiled the kernel with all the right options according to the guide. > When I run /usr/X11R6-DRI/bin/XFree86 -configure, > I get an error saying unknown device detected, xfree86pci.h (or whatever) > does not contain the information for my card, please submit scanpci -v to > the xfree people. > > Well, here's the pertinent scanpci -v > > pci bus 0x1 cardnum 0x00 function 0x0000: vendor 0x1002 device 0x5157 > ATI Device unknown > CardVendor 0x1002 card 0x013a (ATI, Card unknown) > STATUS 0x02b0 COMMAND 0x0087 > CLASS 0x03 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0x00 > BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x20 CACHE 0x08 > BASE0 0xe0000008 addr 0xe0000000 MEM PREFETCHABLE > BASE1 0x0000c001 addr 0x0000c000 I/O > BASE2 0xed000000 addr 0xed000000 MEM > MAX_LAT 0x00 MIN_GNT 0x08 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x0b > > so that sucks, but no biggie, right? I just made up my own XF86Config-4 > file. I tried both radeon and ati as the driver in my device section to > no luck, both times the X server dies with > I've attached my X server log so you can see what i'm talking about. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm at the end of my rope, after > spending literally 3 continious days tryign to set this up (i'm a student > on break!) i'm about ready to give up. Accelerated support would be nice, > but I suppose i can live with vesa.. > > > Thanks, > > -km > > > _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
