Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4343 mails)

["Donald Grayson" <dgrayson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olle Viksten [mailto:olle@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 12:19 PM
> To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [SLE] Radeon 8500
>
>
> onsdagen den 13 november 2002 18.13 skrev Anders Johansson:
> > 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
>
> 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