RE: [Xpert]Status of ATI Radeon support under XFree86

[Alexander Stohr]

Title: AW: [Xpert]Status of ATI Radeon support under XFree86

after doing some research on ATI.com, anandtech.com and others to make sure...

 

ATI Radeon 8500 is built with a chip from the Radeon R200 chip family

and should work with the available ATI FireGL drivers.

 

But ATI Radeon VE (similar to ATI Radeon 7000)

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.

 

-Alex.

-----Original Message-----
From: Johannes Rath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:05
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: AW: [Xpert]Status of ATI Radeon support under XFree86

Kacper,

your board has to be 'build by ATI', for the firegl drivers to work.

Johannes

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Kacper Wysocki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Oktober 2002 11:00
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Betreff: [Xpert]Status of ATI Radeon support under XFree86

*  ATI has released it's FireGl200 workstation drivers for the radeon,
as these apparently have the same chipset. In fact, when getting
drivers for linux from the ati support site, for any radeon (including,
specifically, my QL) you will be directed to these firegl drivers. They
come only as rpms. I have seen reports of people with different radeon
cards (ve etc) getting these drivers to work, and being content. Not I.
When I try to load these drivers I get a "card unsupported". I should
be complaining to ATI, except linux, and the firegl driver for the
radon, is unsupported.