[Comm-en] Fwd: Problems with X and Radeon R300/9700pro

[Comm-en] Fwd: Problems with X and Radeon R300/9700pro

[Mark Donahue]

 

 

From: Mark Donahue <mark_donahue@mac.com>
TO: <community-en@altlinux.org>
CC: 
Date: Wed Sep 10, 2003 06:30:09 PM CEST
Subject: Problems with X and Radeon R300/9700pro

Hello,

I just ditched SuSE 8.2 in favour of ALT Junior 2.2. The installation went fine except for the X config.  The card is detected as an ATI Radeon 9700 (R300 chipset I guess) but no driver can be found.  

On SuSE 8.2, the card is detected and configured flawlessly, so my first instinct was that perhaps the drivers delivered with XFree86 4.3.0 were required (since this is the version that ships with SuSE 8.2).  I set up Junior to use the FBDEV driver temporarily and tried to use Synaptic to upgrade XFree86 to 4.3.0.  This broke X, since for some reason XFree86-xfs would not install due to some dependency issue that pointed to my etc/initr.d directory (I think, I'm writing from a Windows PC... grrr and I don't have access to the Linux box for the moment).

Any ideas on how to get my video card to work?  I was really attracted to ALT for the package management features, which I found very weak in SuSE, but now I'm stuck!


Thanks,

Mark

Re: [Comm-en] Fwd: Problems with X and Radeon R300/9700pro

[Michael Shigorin]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 05:32:31PM +0200, Mark Donahue wrote:
> detected as an ATI Radeon 9700 (R300 chipset I guess) but no
> driver can be found.  

Sure, it wasn't supported by spring's versions of software yet.

> On SuSE 8.2, the card is detected and configured flawlessly, so
> my first instinct was that perhaps the drivers delivered with
> XFree86 4.3.0 were required (since this is the version that
> ships with SuSE 8.2).


> I set up Junior to use the FBDEV driver temporarily and tried
> to use Synaptic to upgrade XFree86 to 4.3.0.  This broke X,

Ummm... well 

> Any ideas on how to get my video card to work?

If you want you can try to download beta and install from it:
ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/people/rider/ISO/compact-20030910.iso

It has more fresh drivers and IIRC R9200 was reported as working.

If it's not an option (though this beta seems rather working than
not to me), then you'd better describe more precisely what was
the problem with XF86 4.3 upgrade.

Sorry for slowish answer -- testing the beta on different
hardware myself to be at least a bit sure what to say :-)

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