BandiPat wrote:

Peter, This card should be well supported under Xorg's native radeon driver. There is no need to use ATI's drivers for this card to get acceptable 3D on your setup, it's a good card and there is no need to replace it at this time unless you need too.

Fully agreed. Same here with a 9200 SE, which does not work with the latest ATI drivers and the old drivers do not work with the current xorg 7.2. But: There is definitely no need! 3D with the native Radeon driver works ok (within the limits of such an "old iron") If you do need to, then by all means

get another ATI card, because most, except for the very latest cards, are supported natively in Xorg. This makes them both convenient and easy to set up using Sax2 in runlevel 3.

You will need to find either 8.28 or 8.29 version of the ATI driver, if you want to use that.

Yes, sadly afaik they will not work with xorg 7.2 regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 02 April 2007, Peter Bloomfield wrote:

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Peter, This card should be well supported under Xorg's native radeon driver. There is no need to use ATI's drivers for this card to get acceptable 3D on your setup, it's a good card and there is no need to replace it at this time unless you need too. If you do need to, then by all means get another ATI card, because most, except for the very latest cards, are supported natively in Xorg. This makes them both convenient and easy to set up using Sax2 in runlevel 3.

Lee & Eberhard,

Thanks for the positive responses, all seems not to be lost.

I really don't want to buy a new card, this one works well for what I want.

From what has been written I just use the native radeon driver that comes with Xorg, and ignore the ATI drivers, correct? I guess I need to un-install these, and then go through sax2 after init 3?

Are there any good howto's out there that will point me in the right direction to do this.

I have always managed to get this card running 3D under SuSE pre 10.*, but I think that it has been through 'luck rather than good judgement'!

Peter =========

Nothing special to do Peter. Just remove the ATI driver, if installed, drop down to init 3, run sax2, set the 3d on, test it and save it. You could use "sax2 -m 0=radeon" also, if you want to be sure to get the radeon module loaded. I think you'll find it results in very adequate readings from glxgears on that card. regards, Lee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 02 April 2007, Sunny wrote:

On 4/2/07, BandiPat wrote:

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Nothing special to do Peter. Just remove the ATI driver, if installed, drop down to init 3, run sax2, set the 3d on, test it and save it. You could use "sax2 -m 0=radeon" also, if you want to be sure to get the radeon module loaded.

I think you'll find it results in very adequate readings from glxgears on that card.

regards, Lee

Lee, do you have any idea if this driver has a TV-out support?

Cheers

-- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap.

========== I'm honestly not certain. I know some of the card features are unsupported in the native driver and is why some had to use the ATI binary. Best way to test is just run sax2 to see what the gui shows as being configuarable. You could probably go to the Xorg site or IRC to get better answers as well. When it was all just XFree86, I kept up with it more and followed it closer, but after it broke off I didn't worry so much about it. Mainly because the XOrg group were good at what they did, so I felt things were headed in the right direction. They've done a good job thus far and I'm glad Suse chose to go with them. regards, Lee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org