Steven Beeckman wrote:
Martin, if you want you may explain to me how to get the ATI Radeon 9200
to work on a brand new Slackware 10.0 ;-)
Which kernel release do you have with Slackware 10.0 ?
Martin.
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Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !
Steven Beeckman wrote:
Now I'm using 2.4.24 (in the twenties) but I'm planning on upgrading to
some 2.6 kernel (the newest one probably). Slackware 10.0 ships with
X.org [...]
I believe with XOrg and a 2.6 kernel you already have anything you need
to get happy :-)
Cheers,
Martin.
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Steven Beeckman wrote:
Martin, if you want you may explain to me how to get the ATI Radeon 9200
to work on a brand new Slackware 10.0 ;-). The docs of DRI speak about
getting the CVS of X.Org, configuring the kernel [...]
I don't know which release of X11 is being shipped with Slackware
Steven Beeckman wrote:
PS: Alex: what's fglrx? The drivers from ATI? I've tried the rpm I
think, but it didn't work out either :-s (probably because of what you
said: two ways to solve the same problem ...)
'fglrx' is the closed source driver from ATI. You probably need to
tweak the build
Alex Perry wrote:
From: Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote:
Sigh... and I thought ATI is supposed to be Linux-friendly?!
Things have changed a bit these days, but the r200 chip is still one of
the best supported GPU's in the OpenSource world. The problem on
It turned out that the half of dozen kernel panic I have and my sloppy repair
works was also a contributor to the problem. To make a long story short, I
wipped the drive clean and start fresh.
I would certainly like to hear your advice on the fglrx route. =)
Ampere
On November 8, 2004 11:12
Actually, since the radeon driver is working better than fglrx at the moment,
I would like to see if I can speed the framerate up first.
I will include the logs tomorrow.
Thanks in advance,
Ampere
On November 8, 2004 09:27 pm, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote:
I would certainly like to hear your
By mask, do you mean this line in XF86Config-4?
Option AGPMode #
If so, it is no use. X just skips it. =(
I will try again.
Ampere
On November 7, 2004 09:15 pm, Alex Perry wrote:
If my memory serves me correctly, this is referring to the mask by which
you specify which AGP modes the
Use Internal or not, it doesn't make any difference to me -- no direct
rendering. =(
Ampere
On November 7, 2004 11:27 pm, Alex Perry wrote:
It found the card, initialized the driver, everything is fine.
However, you told it to use the built in AGP driver, rather than
the kernel one, and it
