On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Markus Kohli wrote: > I've just ordered a Dell Inspiron with the Ati Radeon 7500 Mobile Chip. > Now I've crawled through thousands of webpages, but neither any > newsgroup nor mailinglist nor site did reveal what I was looking for... > Does the new XFree86 4.2.0 support this chipset? I've read that it > supports at least 2D now on Ati Radeon 7500/8500, but not a word about > the mobile version.
Don't know what the PCI ID would be on a Mobility M7. You could look in the source and see if its PCI ID is listed. If it's supported, you will probably be able to find it. > And another question: dri.sourceforge.net says that the new DRI-version > also supports 3D on the 7500. That thing isn't yet included in the new > Xfree Release, is it? Yes, it is. The 7000/7200/7500 designs are closely related to the "classic" Radeon design - enough so that apparently not too many changes were required to get the existing code to work with them. The 8500, however, is substantially different from the rest of the Radeon family, requiring new drivers (and for it, 3D support is not yet available as part of XFree, at least to my knowledge). Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School | #linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net) | #linuxOS on OPN _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
