On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:42:37AM +0200, H du Plooy Wrote:
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
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