>>I have a new ATI Radeon 8500, and it's not being detected by XFree86. >>I had it shipped next day air direct from ATI so It may not even be a >>week old. >> >>I'm running Debian (Woody) and am having trouble recompiling XFree86 in the >>Debian manner. I also was trying to get the cvs working, it seems I have to >>download all the *,v and other cvs files I don't want. Dose any one know >>how I >>should get XFree86 www.XFree86.org was most unhelpfull. Is FTP going to have >>what I need? > >You need to checkout xc from CVS. > >You can get 2D working with standard 4.1 by defining the chipset as "ATI >RADEON QE AGP" and setting AGPMode to 1 in your XF86Config-4 if I remember >correctly. It works but it will crash if you run any OpenGL. > >I had no problem with the CVS just downloading from xfree86.org with > >cvs checkout xc. > >Then I went into the directory and ran: > >make World >make Install > >Then I placed a bogus chipset name in XF86Config-4 so it would give me the >list of chipset in the error log. > >I chose the 8500 chipset name and added it to my XF86Config-4 file. I also >removed the nodri option and added the AGPMode option to set AGP to 4. > >There was no 3D support for the Radeon 8500 the last time I did this but >the 2D support is the fastest I have ever seen. > >regards, -- Mark Lane Hard Data Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 FAX: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada T5X 1Y3 http://www.harddata.com/ --> Ask me about our Dual Processor Athlon DDR RAM Systems! <-- -->Or the New DDR Alpha Systems <--
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