Hi All & Gideon & Ben, who typed.... <snip> Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Gideon Hallett (diogenes@freeuk.com) [021008 11:52]: ::Sorry folks, I know this isn't the absolute best place to ask; but ::has anyone else seen hide nor hair of any X modules covering the ::Radeon 9700?
I read the other day (don't remember the site) that ATI has released binary only 9XXX drivers. You might give their website a once over. I know they have 8XXX drivers out.
Cheers!
<snip> The 8xxx series have binary only's from ATI & the XFree86 stuff. The 9xxx have none yet. There is a hack you can use that gets the 9000 series going, but not the 9700, posted by Patrick (thanx Patrick!), several days back. I've not tried it yet myself. I do like my new 9000 Pro with 128 megs of DDR goodness :-) Here is a c&p of Pat's posting. <snip> ATI Radeon 9000-On Tux To those that are interested in the ATI Radeon 9000 or that have one, I found this little bit of news today from one of the developers. This news fresh from the XFree86 mail list! Hi, The patch for Radoen 9000, M9 and Radeon 9700 2D support has been submitted and will be in XFree CVS tree in the near future. 9000 and 8500 don't share the same IDs, that's for sure. Meanwhile specifying ChipID in the config file with a 8500 or 7500 ID is a correct solution for getting 9000 or M9 to work with the existing X4.2xx Radoen dirver (2D part only, note this won't work with 9700). If you specify ChipID with a 8500 ID (0x4242 for example), it will only work with the single head config. If you want both heads to work correctly with a dual-head/Xinerama setup, use a 7500 (0x5157) or a VE ID (0x5159 for example). Although 9000 uses the same 3D core as used in 8500, its 2D features (dual-head, tvout, etc) actually follow 7500. When you use a 7500 or VE ID, make sure to disable DRI. Although the 2D part of radeon DRI support is likely to work fine with radeon.o kernel driver on a 9000 (this is because the 2D DRI support only uses DMA to send 2D commands, doesn't even use the microcode for 2D commands), any ogl app (like ogl screen savers) will lock whole thing up if DRI is enabled. The failure experienced by Arkadiusz in http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-September/020561.html is probably caused by the bug with DDA rountines in the old X4.20 driver, this has been discussed before and has been fixed in XFree CVS tree. Hope this helps Hui ---------------------------- Looks like they are quickly getting support worked up for both the 9000 & 9700 cards, so those people contemplating getting one shouldn't worry too much about support. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 <snip> HTH? *BFN* Greek Geek :-)