Hi, Alexander! It's a great news that ATI is making Linux driver for R200 boards, but this driver is very problematic to use for me and my friends. Below is a brief list of troubles I met installing this driver on my SuSE 8.1 box:
At first I attempted to set up SuSE's xfglrx package to get 3D acceleration for my Gigabyte AP64D board (actually it is a R200 QL with 64 Mb DDR RAM). After generating XF86Config and typing startx in command prompt X server failed to start. I found in system logs that 2D driver refused to work with third party boards. It's nearly impossible to buy "build by ATI" board in Moscow, so I was forced to apply my assembly skills to modify board vendor id in 2D driver (fglrx_drv.o). After replacing ATI's id (0x1002) with Gigabyte (0x1458) I was able to start XFree but I saw my text consoles (vga=791) broken. Next thing I've tried is to start Tux Racer game. After 2 minutes of pretty smooth gameplay it hung and my box locked up completely. I decided it's enough to uninstall this package and I started to look around for any alternative driver. I've downloaded official ATI driver version 2.4.0 and tried to install it. After install script built kernel drm modules installation stopped because depmod complained about unresolved symbols in module fglrx.o That was my last attempt to use official ATI drivers :( Now I have installed driver from dri trunk, it works pretty well, but I have very slow gameplay with Loki's Rune. Maybe today I will try to install official ATI driver again, this time version 2.4.3. I hope it finally going to work. -- WBR, Roman http://www.svartalf.tk ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
