Re: [XFree86] installation before usage?
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 10:30, breakerfall wrote: Your best solve to this problem is starting with a newer distro that does support your card .. otherwise you can install without X and then use Yast 1 (console based) to download and update the package. If you are a newbie though getting online e.t.c and making your way around the console could be a bit testing. I'm not a Suse user so I can't really give more details on Yast but the other way from console is to download the rpm file (make sure it is an update for Suse 7.2 though as newer versions may cause other problems...) here are the commands you will need wget URL of xfree86 suse 7.2 RPM rpm -ivh xfree86 suse 7.2 RPM 7.2 is not really supported any longer so it could be difficult to find. cheers Allan Hi there... As far as unix based OSs go I'm a newbie but very interested non the less. I have a linux distro by the name of Linux Suse 7.2pro. When installing the OS, the coputer will freeze whenever I get to the point where I need to test the video display [once i have set resolutions etc] The problem, from what I can work out from looking around was that this OS has an older versino of xfree86 which has a problem with a couple of cards one of those being the ATI radeon chipset. This is rather frustrating as I believe that just a simple update of xfree86 will solve the problem, however, I cannot even gain access to the GUI because the X window system isn't created as I can never get past the video config screen. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks Steven ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 -- Allan Klinbail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
[XFree86] hardware acceleration for radeon 7500
Sorry to repeat myself.. How do I do it?? Preferably specific to Mandrake 9.1 but 9.0 or even another distro would be okay.. cheers -- Allan Klinbail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] hardware acceleration for radeon 7500
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 19:06, Yann E. MORIN wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 10:26, you (Allan Klinbail) wrote : How do I do it?? Preferably specific to Mandrake 9.1 but 9.0 or even another distro would be okay.. Get XFree86, edit/create to suit your needs the cf/cf/host.def file, compile and install. Then, man radeon gives you all info about it. I really need to download and compile it again.. if so so be it... Tell me if you want want my host.def and my XF86config-4 files, I'll mail them (private because of BW constraints to the list). Please do any reference is good.. (my email is below) I've succesfully compiled and istalled it for a radeon M6 LY, wich is the precedent versio, but the driver is the same. Regards, Yann. -- Allan Klinbail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] hardware acceleration for radeon 7500
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 19:00, Shadow wrote: How do I do it?? Preferably specific to Mandrake 9.1 but 9.0 or even another distro would be okay.. I have radeon 7500 and in SuSE 8.1 acceleration works fine. When I upgraded to SuSE 8.2 a can't get my radeon to work. In SuSE 8.1, X version is 4.2.0, and in 8.2, X is 4.3.0 The problem is that I don't have DFP/LCD monitor. I have CRT monitor. If you are using radeon 7500 and CRT screen on 4.3.0 X server, how did you make it run? On Mandrake 9.1 it installed fine for CRT, problem was it installed as software 3D acceleration. cheers Allan ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 -- Allan Klinbail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] 4.3.0 and ATI Radeon
Mine has no such options selected and works.. check under the screen and monitor sections. On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 18:38, Shadow wrote: How to force X 4.3.0 server to use CRT Screen instead of DFP/LCD? In 4.2.0 I solve ttried also Option CRTOnly Option Display CRThe problem with Option CRT Screen I tried also Option CRTOnly Option Display CRT but X still trying to use DFP/LCD. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 -- Allan Klinbail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
[XFree86] radeon 7500 hardware accel. in Mandrake 9.1
Hi All It seems to appear that the Mandrake 9.1 default install uses software acceleration. Can anyone explain briefly what I need to do to get hardware acceleration running.. cheers Allan ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [Xpert]Radeon 7500 Problem
Hi Nick I'm about to do the same. IN summary ona Mandrake system you had to copy out the ati and radeon drivers as written below. Where there other steps? Also could you send me a copy of your XF86Config-4 file as it would be a great help. cheers Allan On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 13:14, Nick Kraft wrote: I've got it working... Thanks for all the help. -Nick Kraft On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 19:35, Kevin Oberman wrote: From: Nick Kraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01 Oct 2002 18:57:05 -0400 I downloaded the tarball and dropped the ati_drv.o file into my /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers file. It still isn't working; is this what I needed to do? Does X link to this stock driver now, or do I have to build something? My new log file is attached. Thanks again. Sorry if these are stupid questions. I think you really need to drop both ati_drv.o and radeon_drv.o into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers. The device is ati, but that driver will talk to the card to determine if it is an older card, a Rage128, or a Radeon and load those drivers, as well. So, for a Radeon card, both modules should be updated. Or maybe I'm just very confused! R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert -- Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Komarinski) ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Sun(Sony)GDM-1662B
HI Has anyone actually got this one going... I've seen posts that claim to have working modelines on various websites but none seem to work. cheers Allan -- Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Komarinski) -- Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Komarinski) ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Sun(Sony)GDM-1662B - fixed frequency monitor
What I should hav included was that this is a composite sync monitor that uses the SOny GDM 1662 Trinitron tube (the difference between the 1662 and 1662B tubes is one is for the southern hemisphere. cheers Allan . On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 00:40, Allan Klinbail wrote: HI Has anyone actually got this one going... I've seen posts that claim to have working modelines on various websites but none seem to work. cheers Allan -- Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Komarinski) -- Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Komarinski) ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert -- Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Komarinski) ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
