I'm setting up 9.0 on my system. I bought a VisionTek Xtasy card with an ATI 9200SE 128mb AGP card. Yast has no driver for this card; I had to settle for a VESA driver, i.e., no 3d acceleration. I went to to the ATI site and downloaded their driver, packed in an rpm. when I installed it, a message was printed on the term window about running a makefile. Running that errored out, giving a message about requiring XFree86 above 4.1 and a kernel greater than 2.4.8. As everyone knows, both these requirements are met, and then some, in 9.0. Is there a driver which will work with this card?
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:10:19 -0800
Tim Hanson
I went to to the ATI site and downloaded their driver, packed in an rpm. when I installed it, a message was printed on the term window about running a makefile. Running that errored out, giving a message about requiring XFree86 above 4.1 and a kernel greater than 2.4.8. As everyone knows, both these requirements are met, and then some, in 9.0.
I guess you need the XFree development package and the kernel sources. Cheers, Ingo -- "What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums I suppose." --Rincewind, Terry Pratchett "Eric"
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 December 2003 19:10, Tim Hanson wrote:
I'm setting up 9.0 on my system. I bought a VisionTek Xtasy card with an ATI 9200SE 128mb AGP card. Yast has no driver for this card; I had to settle for a VESA driver, i.e., no 3d acceleration.
I went to to the ATI site and downloaded their driver, packed in an rpm. when I installed it, a message was printed on the term window about running a makefile. Running that errored out, giving a message about requiring XFree86 above 4.1 and a kernel greater than 2.4.8. As everyone knows, both these requirements are met, and then some, in 9.0.
Is there a driver which will work with this card?
You might want to take look and see what the graphics chip is. It is most likely listed under that. From what I have been able to gather the "generic" 9200 (replaces the 9000) is an RV280, of which there are 7 types in YaST2/SaX2: RV280 5960 RV280 5961 RV280 5962 RV280 5963 RV280 5968 RV280 5369 RV280 596A Have a look at: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2003/10/19/0013.html <snip> RV280 Radeon 9200PRO/9200/9200SE, M9+ <snip> http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/2684/ ATI had already released the 9200 and 9200Pro, and the new addition will complete its 9200 series of budget, medium and high-end cards. The 9200SE will be a toned down 9200 [RV280], with lower memory bandwidth of 64-bit (versus 128-bit for the 9200) and lower core clock speed of 200MHz (versus 250MHz)." As far as the minor number identifiers (e.g. 596x). I haven't found out what these represent. But...., Remember.... Google is your friend, especially www.google.com/linux. HTH, and Cheers. Curtis. - -- Spammers Beware: Tresspassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! Warning: Individuals throwing objects at the crocodiles will be asked to retrieve them! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/5SeHN9r/ngHXpykRAlLGAKCWSkT75vOikRra+d7Mg6AWObXzrACgp1fW SFx9f3rezDjFJ30JLFGzzls= =JAoQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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