On Tuesday 23 April 2002 04:49 pm, you wrote:
> i don't suppose that you have a vanilla agp or even a pci card to swap the
> radeon out with.
<<<nope, wish I did--I'd be a few dollars less poor, as well>>>>
> as you mentioned, to me it reeks of video card driver issues.
<snip>
> it also seems to me that the i840 based boards were a no-show on 8.0, but i
> could be wrong about this. probably civileme would know right away.
> moose.
Thanks, Moose--
I'm not famiar with "civileme" but perhaps I should be.
The video does seem to be the problem, but some chat on the web seems to
indicate that the Radeo 7500 *should* work with Xfree86 4.2.0
Here is one resource I found--but in the minimal install I was able to do the
files he mentions are pretty empty, with nothing that looks useful in them. I
don't think the Radeon support is in there.
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The ATI Radeon Mobility video card works when installing the default
Mandrake settings but it uses a FrameBuffer Driver which does not use the
accelerated graphics capabilities of the Card.
You do not need to recompile the kernel to add the AGP and DRI, they come
stock. But if you do like most of us and recompile *ASAP* remember to go into
the Character Devices section and include the AGPGART, DRI and Radeon
modules.
The default kernel boot parameters in /etc/lilo.conf comes with the vga
option set. For whatever reason (I am still trying to figure this out) the
vga option caused my X server to fail, reason given: No screens found. So I
took the vga option out of lilo.conf (It does nothing other than allow the
Mandrake warm and fuzzy loader screen to display) and it worked.
The only other modifications you need to make are to the
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and /etc/modules.conf. Add the following line to
the modules.conf file: options agpgart "agp_try_unsupported=1". A working
XF86Config-4 file can be found here!. Note: there is reference to a USB mouse
in the Input Device Section. Take this out if you do not have a USB Mouse.
Any tips on how to get a Radeon 7500 to play nice w/Mandrake and Xfree86?
TIA,
Nick
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