On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 22:16, Noah Romer wrote:
> On 7 Jan 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 20:32, Noah Romer wrote:
> > > I have a Shuttle AK31 Rev3 motherboard (Athlon XP 1800 cpu) and am trying
> > > to get XWindows working. My video card is an ATI Radeon 8500 (QL). I'm 
> > > using XFree86 4.1.99.4 (cvs). With the 2.4.7-10 kernel from Red Hat 7.2, X
> > > will run, but w/o agp/dri/drm support.
> > 
> > Don't bother, the 8500 isn't supported for 3D yet.
> 
> I'm not really looking for 3d support. What I'm looking for is agp and drm
> support (dri-devel is listed as the maintainter list for DRM in the linux
> kernel).

I'm afraid no 3D support means no DRM support either.

> I'd like to be able to use some of the video tools available for
> linux, all of those tools, however, require Xv support in XFree86. Xv
> support, as far as I can figure, requires DRM support.

It doesn't.

I understand Xv for the 8500 is broken in XFree86 CVS, gatos.sf.net
apparently has a fix.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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