On Wednesday 13 November 2002 17.36, Olle Viksten wrote:

onsdagen den 13 november 2002 13.41 skrev Vidor Dmeter:

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Hi all,

A friend of mine has installed SuSE 8.1 via FTP, and he can not configure the grphic card, a Radeon 8500 LE. He has an AMD Athlon 2000+ based PC with 256MB RAM and a HDa on 80GB and one at 40GB as the second mounted as slave. I tried to help him, but without success. The Yast2 recognize the card as Radeon QL and I've changed it to LE too but no luck. Am I missing something, or the card is not supported? On the SuSE site there is mentioned Radeon to be supported by SuSE! Can somebody point me to the right direction?

You can find some drivers at http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html . They work fine with my 8500

There is a working ATI driver now, written by Tungsten Graphics. It works quite well, I've used it to watch DVD, play quake3 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The only drawback is that it requires X 4.2.99, so you have to download and compile the entire X distribution.

On Wednesday 13 November 2002 18.05, Olle Viksten wrote:

So where do I find X 4.2.99 and the ATI driver? I've tried at xfree86.org and a mirror site.

The Tungsten ati driver can be found at http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/bleeding-edge/ It's the "r200" driver Beware it is still beta "bleeding edge". All I can say is that I installed the version dated nov 11 and it worked pretty well. At least I couldn't find any bugs. YMMV For X 4.2.99, go to xfre86.org and follow their instructions for checking out from cvs. Be careful when installing though. Compiling was easy enough, but to get the installation correct is a bit of a PITA Anders

-----Original Message----- From: Olle Viksten [mailto:olle@viksten.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 12:19 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Radeon 8500

onsdagen den 13 november 2002 18.13 skrev Anders Johansson:

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On Wednesday 13 November 2002 18.05, Olle Viksten wrote:

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So where do I find X 4.2.99 and the ATI driver? I've tried at xfree86.org and a mirror site.

The Tungsten ati driver can be found at

http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/bleeding-edge/

It's the "r200" driver

Beware it is still beta "bleeding edge". All I can say is that I installed the version dated nov 11 and it worked pretty well. At least I couldn't find any bugs. YMMV

For X 4.2.99, go to xfre86.org and follow their instructions for checking out from cvs. Be careful when installing though. Compiling was easy enough, but to get the installation correct is a bit of a PITA

Thanks. I think I'll wait untill the weekend to do it. That will give me more time to clean up hte mess I'll probably make of it. :-)

Olle

If SuSE recognized your friends card it should have picked the right driver for it, considering there's only one driver that comes with X for the Radeon series cards. Did you make sure your friend chose the right monitor model for his setup and that it is using the right refresh rates? Have you considered making up an X11Config by hand? It'll be a lot easier than compiling X from source. Don

Hi Don,

The monitor model was choosed by SuSE too and did not worked. I tried to change to the right monitor by choosing it from the list, (Hansol) 90P - I think - but no X11 started with it. Yes I tried to configure X11 with xfconfig, but the results was the same. With Sax2 couldn't do anything, it doesn't start... :-(

Maybe I'll try to make up an X11Config by hand as you suggest :-)

Thanks for all help I've got... Vidor

----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald Grayson" To: Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:43 PM Subject: RE: [SLE] Radeon 8500

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If SuSE recognized your friends card it should have picked the right

driver

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for it, considering there's only one driver that comes with X for the Radeon series cards.

Did you make sure your friend chose the right monitor model for his setup and that it is using the right refresh rates? Have you considered making up an X11Config by hand? It'll be a lot easier than compiling X from

To all SuSE gurus, I just picked up a Radeon 8500 (evil master II Pro by power color) and SuSE8.1 installed it as R200QL. I don't have the slightest idea on how to compile X11Config "by hand" would some be so kind as to give me a few pointers to get be started. For example What is the X11Config source_file called ? What are required librairies? What is the basic procedure ? I imagine that it must be something like ... tar xvf source_file ./configure make Thanks in advance Ciao James Pearson E mail (mai) : james.pearson@wanadoo.fr E mail (bur) : james.pearson@wanadoo.com Web page: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/j.pearson/ What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vidor Dmeter" To: "Donald Grayson" ; Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Radeon 8500 source.

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Don

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On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 09:43, Donald Grayson wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: Olle Viksten [mailto:olle@viksten.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 12:19 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Radeon 8500

onsdagen den 13 november 2002 18.13 skrev Anders Johansson:

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On Wednesday 13 November 2002 18.05, Olle Viksten wrote:

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So where do I find X 4.2.99 and the ATI driver? I've tried at xfree86.org and a mirror site.

The Tungsten ati driver can be found at

http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/bleeding-edge/

It's the "r200" driver

Beware it is still beta "bleeding edge". All I can say is that I installed the version dated nov 11 and it worked pretty well. At least I couldn't find any bugs. YMMV

For X 4.2.99, go to xfre86.org and follow their instructions for checking out from cvs. Be careful when installing though. Compiling was easy enough, but to get the installation correct is a bit of a PITA

Thanks. I think I'll wait untill the weekend to do it. That will give me more time to clean up hte mess I'll probably make of it. :-)

Olle

If SuSE recognized your friends card it should have picked the right driver for it, considering there's only one driver that comes with X for the Radeon series cards.

Did you make sure your friend chose the right monitor model for his setup and that it is using the right refresh rates? Have you considered making up an X11Config by hand? It'll be a lot easier than compiling X from source.

Don

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ATI does not produce the drivers for linux. I've got a Radeon LE and on my previous RedHat install I didn't have the 3d drivers installed. Where can you get these and/or who writes them? I'm anxious to give that Unreal 2k3 demo another shot.