[Newbie]Radeon 8500 + DRI/DRM = ? does it work?

[David Grimes]

Hello,             Forgive me if this has been posted before or if I over looked something obvious. I have been going round and round with RH 7.2 XFree 4.2 DRI and this radeon card trying to get “dri enabled” just so I can play quake…since January. I have had no luck with any google searches are install/configure/setup/debug guides that I’ve found. Overall I get a conflicted impression as to whether the 8500 is support under xfree86 4.2 at all… or atleast as far as DRI is concerned… Here’s the problem. Linux 2.4.18 with drm compiled in radeon driver left as a module and radeon fb compiled in…. RH 7.2 running xfree86 4.2.0 I installed the dri drivers using the install.sh that came in the tarball and it went well… Dmesg shows the radeon and agpart modules are loaded X in general runs Glxinfo shows direct rendering:no /var/log/xfree86.0 simply states that DRI was disabled all changes to the xfree86 conf file were made it’s 2am and like I said im at a complete loss if someone could just chime in “with it works for me” I wont give up hope…but meanwhile I’m stuck in windows just to play quake…. Thanks David