On Mon 01 Mar 04, 11:36 AM, Bill Broadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:18:38PM -0800, Jim Lowman wrote: > > I suspect that the 9800 is the problem, since the archives show that > > usually the bleeding-edge graphics > > cards aren't supported by Linux. Everything is fine in Win2000, but the > > Er, bleeding edge video cards with propietary drivers are supported by > the vendor, not linux. Did you try the ATI driver? It's listes as support > the 9800 series and supports xfree86 4.1.0, 4.2.0, and 4.4.0 > > > Linux install barely gets off the > > ground before I get a black screen. > > > > Before the upgrades, I had RH9 installed and dual-booted with Win2000; > > then I had an nVIDIA GeForce2 > > MX 200 video card which worked fine, but had no DVI-out for the new display. > > The nvidia drivers have been pretty good at supporting the newest cards. > > > I'm going to drop the old video card back in and give it a try. Also I > > bought another graphics card that uses > > the nVIDIA 5200 - it even says that it supports Linux on the box. > > Or just install without video and fix it after install. > > > Any idea how long it takes before video cards like the 9800 XT Pro get > > supported? I bought that for the > > "dream machine" that I'm building. > > >From what I can tell today. Anyone know if xfree86-4.4 support for the 9800 > includes full 2d and 3d acceleration? naturally it does 2D.
i heard that 4.4 also does 3D for this card, but calling it "3D support" was said to be a "kind gesture". it's supposed to be full of gotchas and unimplemented advanced hw features. pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
