Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4343 mails)

[Rob Benton <rob.benton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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