[Xpert]Radeon 7000 QD (32Mb DDR)
Good day, everyone. I have found a way to get this card to work with XFree86 4.1.0. I had to recompile the kernel with the AGP support module (agpgart), the Radeon framebuffer modules (radeonfb), and the DRM updates from dri.sourceforge.net. I am using the 2.4.17 kernel. The framebuffer module has to be compiled as a module. If it's compiled into the kernel, the scrolling mechanism is messed up; I get just a one-line buffer at the top of the screen (overlapping the tux logo) until the screen is cleared (via clear). Then in my XF86Config-4 file, I put this into my Device section: Section Device Driver radeon VideoRam 32768 Option UseDepthMoves Option UseFBDev EndSection Now, UseFBDev must be in there, or XFree86 will either say no screens found or the monitor will go on standby and freeze the computer. I have found that the ATI2 drivers from the Gatos project will not work with this card. The monitor ends up going into standby and the computer hard locks. But now, I get full GLX support. glxgears reports 900 fps. Just my experience with this. ** Derek J Witt ** * Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Home Page: http://www.flinthills.com/~djw/ * *** ...and on the eighth day, God met Bill Gates. - Unknown ** ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Radeon 7000 QD (32Mb DDR)
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Derek J Witt wrote: Good day, everyone. I have found a way to get this card to work with XFree86 4.1.0. I had to recompile the kernel with the AGP support module (agpgart), the Radeon framebuffer modules (radeonfb), and the DRM updates from dri.sourceforge.net. I am using the 2.4.17 kernel. The framebuffer module has to be compiled as a module. If it's compiled into the kernel, the scrolling mechanism is messed up; I get just a one-line buffer at the top of the screen (overlapping the tux logo) until the screen is cleared (via clear). Then in my XF86Config-4 file, I put this into my Device section: Section Device Driver radeon VideoRam 32768 Option UseDepthMoves Option UseFBDev EndSection Now, UseFBDev must be in there, or XFree86 will either say no screens found or the monitor will go on standby and freeze the computer. I have found that the ATI2 drivers from the Gatos project will not work with this card. The monitor ends up going into standby and the computer hard locks. Which drivers ? If you have tried the latest ones they will not work with standard dri modules (and will produce a lockup). As for monitor going into standby try using Option CrtScreen. Vladimir Dergachev But now, I get full GLX support. glxgears reports 900 fps. Just my experience with this. ** Derek J Witt ** * Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Home Page: http://www.flinthills.com/~djw/ * *** ...and on the eighth day, God met Bill Gates. - Unknown ** ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Radeon 7000 QD (32Mb DDR)
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Mike Mestnik wrote: Is this really worth trying, dose this enable direct rendering? Can you play Quake Arena (The only thing that matters!)? I have a Radeon 8500 might this work with my card to? No. The Radeon 7000/7200/7500 boards's display controller is closely related to the original Radeon, enough so that this should theoretically work. The 8500, however, has some significant differences from both the 7x00 Radeons and the original Radeon that make it truly incompatible with XFree86 4.1.0's Radeon driver. However, there's a 2D-only Radeon 8500 driver in XFree CVS now, which would at least get the board working. I don't know ATI's intentions as far at Linux 3D support for the Radeon 8500 goes though. Anyone else know what the scoop is there? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Radeon 7000 QD (32Mb DDR)
I have found that the ATI2 drivers from the Gatos project will not work with this card. The monitor ends up going into standby and the computer hard locks. But now, I get full GLX support. glxgears reports 900 fps. Just my experience with this. Is this really worth trying, dose this enable direct rendering? Can you play Quake Arena (The only thing that matters!)? I have a Radeon 8500 might this work with my card to? No, it won't. Radeon 8500 has a different 3d pipeline. Vladimir Dergachev This is all messed up!! -- Mike ** Derek J Witt ** * Email: YM_M4I5S3S_28:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Home Page: http://www.YM_M4I5S3S_31.com/~YM_M4I5S3S_32/ * *** ...and on the eighth day, God met Bill Gates. - Unknown ** ___ YM_M4I5S3S_33 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/YM_M4I5S3S_35/YM_M4I5S3S_36 Mike's comments on what YM_M4I5S3S_XX means. I found a bug in yahoo... in the spell checker if you delete ought a whole misspelled word and then submit, BOOM. I'm running Mozilla 0.9.5, Explots welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Radeon 7000 QD (32Mb DDR)
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Derrik Pates wrote: On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Mike Mestnik wrote: Is this really worth trying, dose this enable direct rendering? Can you play Quake Arena (The only thing that matters!)? I have a Radeon 8500 might this work with my card to? No. The Radeon 7000/7200/7500 boards's display controller is closely related to the original Radeon, enough so that this should theoretically work. The 8500, however, has some significant differences from both the 7x00 Radeons and the original Radeon that make it truly incompatible with XFree86 4.1.0's Radeon driver. However, there's a 2D-only Radeon 8500 driver in XFree CVS now, which would at least get the board working. I don't know ATI's intentions as far at Linux 3D support for the Radeon 8500 goes though. Anyone else know what the scoop is there? They do make available register-level docs and sample code under NDA to some developers. So at some point this will be supported. (and if someone wants to work on this - send me an e-mail off the list. be warned though - making DRI support for 8500 will require copious amounts of your time). Vladimir Dergachev Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
