On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Martin Held wrote: > Hello, I am in the market for buying a Radeon 8500, and read your post to > the Xpert mailing list. Have you found DRI to be working yet at all in > CVS? I like to be able to play my DVD's under linux, and I only use > Windows for gaming. The 8500 has become attractive to me since it > apparently has dual head support, wondering if you know about either or > have seen either work well, and how happy you have felt about the support > for the 8500 (or lack thereof) thus far. I'm trying to find out as much > information before I even think of taking the plunge.
I'm not sure. I'm able to run XWindows using a checkout from cvs. However, using the 2.4.7-10 kernel in RedHat 7.2, my AGP controller (I've got an Athlon system w/ a VIA KT266A chipset on the motherboard) isn't recognised and it appears to just be using PCI access to the Radeon 8500. Thus, no DRM or DRI. I've also tried using the stock 2.4.16 kernel. With this, the AGP controller is recognised but, when I start XWindows, the monitor loses it's signal, and the only thing I can do is reboot the machine. I've checked the log file at /var/log/XFree86.0, and it doesn't show any problems. So, w/ the 2.4.7-10 kernel, I still just get a black box where the video would be (although it's no longer offset to the right of the window's frame), and w/ the latest kernel's I can't run X at all. I've pretty much given up on doing much w/ XWindows on my new system for now. I've ended up leaving my old computer hooked up to my main monitor and having XWindows apps on my new computer display, across my home network, in the XWindows session on my old computer. Althought it may be an issue w/ the kernel's drm drivers for my motherboards chipset, at this point, I wouldn't recommend either the Radeon 8500 or the 7500 for a linux user who want's to do run 3D or video apps. I find myself wishing I'd bought one of the newer Matrox boards (G450 or somesuch). They're not as fast for 3D (which I can't use w/ the Radeon 8500 anyways), but they blow the GeForce3 and Radeon 8500 aways when it comes to super crisp high resolution non-3D work (the GeForce's fuzziness is the main reason I won't buy one). -- Noah Romer |"Listen, I'm a politician which means I'm a cheat and [EMAIL PROTECTED] |a liar, and when I'm not kissing babies I'm stealing PGP key available |their lollipops." by finger or email | - Jeffrey Pelt _Hunt for Red October_ _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
