tom prudden wrote:
> I too am looking for advice around getting a Radeon 3870 to work.
>
> I started with 2008.11 and upgraded straight 106, I've just ran the update to
> 107.
>
> Whenever I go into the Device Driver Utility the driver being used for the
> card is listed as "vgatext".
> I'm guessing this is wrong! So which package is the one to go for?
Nope, that's the right kernel driver for devices that don't have their
own created, it's just telling you that it's using generic VGA routines
for drawing the kernel text console.
You'll need to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what user-space driver
module the Xorg server is loading - it should be "radeon" or "radeonhd"
if the card is supported by one of those drivers (they support slightly
different subsets of the recent ATI cards).
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
