Hi, Alexander!
It's a great news that ATI is making Linux driver for R200 boards, but this
driver is very problematic to use for me and my friends. Below is a brief
list of troubles I met installing this driver on my SuSE 8.1 box:
At first I attempted to set up SuSE's xfglrx package to get 3D
Title: RE: [Dri-devel] Re: New ATI FireGL drivers announced
Hi, Alexander!
It's a great news that ATI is making Linux driver for R200
boards,
for completeness its: R200/RV250/R300/some-Mobility
At first I attempted to set up SuSE's xfglrx package to get
3D acceleration
for my
On 22 Nov 2002 15:43, you wrote:
After generating XF86Config and typing startx in command
prompt X server
failed to start. I found in system logs that 2D driver refused to
work with third party boards.
That's Intentional. On the list you can find several references to
problems with the
Title: RE: [Dri-devel] Re: New ATI FireGL drivers announced
I used stock SuSE 2.4.19-4GB kernel optimized for Athlon processors.
Please try using a stock kernel.org kernel in the mean time.
There might be need for us to check
if there is a patch in the SuSE kernels
that do impact system
The dri-devel list isn't ATI support.
The announcement about the code was fine. I think we all want to know
about other versions out there for comparison sake if nothing else.
Once people started asking about powered by ati boards, other
platforms, and other troubleshooting, it was no longer
Alexander Stohr wrote:
It's nearly impossible to buy build by ATI board in Moscow,
so I was forced to apply my assembly skills to modify board
vendor id in 2D driver (fglrx_drv.o). After replacing ATI's
id (0x1002) with Gigabyte (0x1458) I was able to start XFree
but I saw my text consoles
