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[H du Plooy <linuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was going to buy myself this card this morning, but ended up not doing
it, sadly.

I put SuSE 8.2 on a friend's computer last night, to see if it will pick
up the card and enable 3D.  It is my understanding that XFree 4.3
supports the Radeon 9000 series.   But alas, it didn't work.  I didn't
even get 2D.  X wouldn't start at all.

In the graphics module of Yast2, I kept getting a message to the effect
that either "no screens found," or "screen found, but non with usable
configuration."  Why is this?

The card is detected as "RV250 lf" - under 3D I get a dialog box saying
that the driver is experimental, but is enabled, so all should be well. 
But no go.  Under 8.1 the card was detected as the same, and it worked
in 2D without any hassles.

So next I tried the ATI driver, which wouldn't compile.  It moaned that
the installed kernel headers didn't match the running kernel. 
linux-2.4.20.SuSE-athlon vs linux-2.4.20-athlon or something like that. 
So I compiled a fresh kernel, which should sort this out.  This is where
it really got weird.  I booted into the new kernel, and got a kernel
panic shortly after starting eth0.  Tried booting back into the stock
kernel - same kernel panick.

Can anyone tell me what's cooking?

The board in question is a Gigabyte GA-7VAX - KT400

Is anyone using this card successfully under linux?  Can the people with
Radeon 9000 cards tell us what they did or didn't do to  get it working?

Thanks
H