Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

[Franklin Maurer <nebbish@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 10:27, BandiPat wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone is running the new Radeon 9200 card in their
> > machine and how did you get it configured?  This card is supported by
> > XFree86 4.3, but not by the presently installed SuSE version that comes
> > with 8.2!  I am not sure about trying to compile the files needed from
> > the XFree86 folks either.  From what info I was able to find, it didn't
> > look nor sound as simple as the standard ./configure, make, make
> > install process that we do with other source files.
> >
> > Has SuSE updated their 4.3 recently?  Who is the keeper of such things
> > for SuSE and might there be something in the "people" files?
> >
> > Any help is welcomed to get this baby working with SuSE.  It does come
> > up in VESA mode, but I was unable to get a full kde boot out of it.
> >
> > >From what little I have seen so far it appears quite speedy.  :o)

I found this post from Ben in the archives I downloaded it but never tried to 
install it ...
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Aug/0883.html

Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 15:25:47 -0700
From: Ben Rosenberg <ben@xxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20030808222547.GB5705@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLE] ATI 9200 Video Card

* Donn aka n5xwb Washburn (n5xwb@xxxxxxxxxx) [030808 14:48]:
>Hey Group;
>
>Has anyone tried this card "ATI Redeon 9200 128M AGP 8X" card . It
>seems that the 9100 has dried up. My concern comes from MS causing
>headaches for Linux. Features are normally not a problem.
>
>Is it suppoted readily by the different X servers?

ftp://ftp.gwdg.de:0/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ATI/suse82/fglrx/2.9.13/

You can find the rpm's for the drivers here as well as a README dealing
with installing..etc..etc.

I'll warn you. I have a 7500 so I've not tried to make these work but I
seem to remember someone on this list posting that they work.

Excerpt:

The driver supports RV250, RV280, R200, RV350, R300, R350 chipsets of
ATI. Popular boards using these chipsets are:

         - ATI Radeon 8500 / 9100
         - ATI FireGL 8700 / 8800
         - ATI FireGL E1 / E1+
         - ATI Radeon 9000
         - ATI Radeon 9200
         - ATI Radeon 9500
         - ATI Radeon 9600
         - ATI Radeon 9700
         - ATI Radeon 9800
         - ATI FireGL Z1 / X1 / X1+

It looks like it should work for you.


-- 
Franklin Maurer
Using SuSE 8.2 Pro