Re: Radeon 9800XT 3D acceleration problem

[Gerhard W. Gruber]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:18:55 +, M Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

To the best of my knowledge XFree86 4.3.0 supports all Radeon cards.

Yes, but not 3D.

XFree86 only provides 2D, for 3D acceleration (which is OpenGL not
X11) you need to get the ATI binary drivers from ATI's website. Because 

That' s exactly the problem. The 3D acceleration does not work for 9800XT. I
know at least one other guy with an XT and he sold it after a few weeks and,
bought an nVidia instead, because it doesn' t work.

XFree86 cannot control these drivers, please direct any questions to the ATI
technical support forums. 

Technical support forum from ATI has exactly one answer: Linux is not
supported blablabla.

They don' t even bother to answer questions which is not related to
installation as long as the magic keyword linux is included. :(

I wonder if it was the wrong decision to buy this card and go for an nVidia
instead. :(

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Radeon 9800XT 3D acceleration problem

[Gerhard W. Gruber]

I have a Asus Radeon 9800XT and everything I tried so far, to get 3D
acceleration working, failed. Now I wonder if
 there is the chance that XFree will support this card with 3D natiively any
time soon. All the success stories I
found were with 9800PRO and the only guy, I found with the XT model, had the
same problems as I.

I read that ATI committed themselve to a drvier update 6 times per year.
Anybody know when the next issue is to be
 expected? I hope that this will be fixed then.

Of course if anybody has some suggestion as how to get 3D working I would
gladly appreciate any suggestions.

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