It's been quite some time since last post, but with school and all I
felt I really needed to give this a proper shot when I had time for it.
I still have gotten nowhere. I tried installing the binary
distribution of the radeon dri module, as found on the dri-sf page, but
that gave me another signal 11. With no luck getting this to run I just
reinstalled the 4.2.0 binaries. I'm really trying to avoid having to compile XF86 myself, since I've heard it's not the most fun thing to do on a Saturday nite.
From: Johannes Rath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You are right, it isn't. Damn, if I had known back when I was buying it that this was a consideration..Kacper,your board has to be 'build by ATI', for the firegl drivers to work.
From: Alexander Stohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
But ATI Radeon VE (similar to ATI Radeon 7000)=20 is based on a chip of a previous Radeon chip family. This design is _not_ in the scope of the ATI FireGL drivers. I am not aware of any report which states the opposite.
I stand corrected. I do belive I meant the LE - or did I? All I can say is my experience is limited to my own QL.
From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> super-slow! What gives? I did have trouble loading glx earlier, but I > traced this problem to my enabling of the radeon framebuffer device in > the kernel. Huh? Must have been something else.
No, I'm pretty sure that's it. I tried different versions of XF86 (admittedly, never cvs), but glx would not load. Recall a post Sep 30th where I was fretting about the fact, upon which I got a reply saying my libglx.so was out of date (Aitchison & Bruno). This might have been true at the time, but after reinstalling XF86 things were still looking glum, until it occured to me that it might be the fbdev. Mind you, I had similar problems with an nvidia card about a year ago. I disabled the radeon fbdev, and the glx loads.
> Now glx loads, but performance is still crap. 3D acceleration is only supported for the 8500 in DRI CVS yet. As you're running Debian, http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/README.Debian should be interesting to you.
It doesn't work. I tried the debian-packaged snapshots and the x-server refuses to load, giving a signal 11. When I try regylar sid xf packages (4.2.1-3) I immediately need to do a hard reset. Only thing that works for me are the binaries.
> * Video/dvd playback with mplayer and xine is good, but only with This should be fixed in current XFree86 and DRI CVS.
Are you saying the GATOS driver does not work with the dual output ofThat seems to be normal when trying to run dualhead with GATOS drivers.
the Radeon? The people on the gatos-devel list didn't seem to be able to confirm this.
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
Hardly on topic, but I wonder, since you are a Debian/powerpc developer: what are my chances at getting a pc radeon card to work in a apple macintosh? What about a GeForce 3 Ti? (I've looked into the matter and it seems the mac firmware does not exist) _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
