On 7 Jan 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > 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.
Ok. > > 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. Huh. I'd tried using the drivers from the gatos project before, but without success. Perhaps I followed their instructions incorrectly. Tried again, and it works. Looking forward to full dri/drm support as well. Thanks. -- Noah Romer |"Listen, I'm a politician which means I'm a cheat and [EMAIL PROTECTED] |a liar, and when I'm not kissing babies I'm stealing PGP key available |their lollipops." by finger or email | - Jeffrey Pelt _Hunt for Red October_ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
