On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Solomon I. Shorser wrote: >> >Is there any way to get a Radeon 7000 to work with Red Hat 8 >> >(which uses XFree86 4.2.x). >> >> Of course.. Radeon 7000 has been supported since Red Hat Linux >> 7.2, and backported to 7.1 via an XFree86 update also. >> >> >I see that it is supported by XFree86 4.3.x which is installed >> >by Red Hat 9 and indeed this works fine on my system. However I >> >really need to use RH8. Can I simply install XFree86 4.3 onto >> >RH8 to resolve this ?? >> >> XFree86 4.3.0 is not in any way required for Radeon 7000. The >> stock default supplied X server with Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, >> and 9 all support Radeon 7000 out of the box. > >really?
Yes, really. >well, I am running RedHat 9 with a Radeon 7000. Redhat can >detect the device (so it does indeed look supported) but I can't >get direct rendering (or any other sort of 3d hardware >acceleration) working. It is definitely supported. I can say that with extremely high degree of confidence because I am the Red Hat XFree86 maintainer, and have been for 3 years. So I very much know what hardware is supported, and have tested it and use it daily personally. Are you using the Red Hat supplied kernel, or your own custom kernel? 3D works out of the box without any special fooling around. >I've tried installing dri, but it all it does is cause segfaults >when I try to run glxgears. I've gone through every trouble >shooting tip and nothing seems to work. You don't need to install anything special or really do anything at all out of the ordinary. The only possible explanation I can remotely think of which would result in 3D not working would be: 1) If your motherboard's AGP chipset does not have kernel agpgart support, or if it is experimental and requires the kernel agp_unsupported=1 commandline option. In this case, it is your motherboard chipset that isn't officially supported, however enabling this might allow you to use 3D. or 2) If you are using a *PCI* Radeon 7000. DRI 3D acceleration is only officially supported on AGP hardware. PCI DRI Radeon support is very experimental, and disabled in the driver by default. It requires using option ForcePCIMode to work, and that option seems broken in 4.3.0 stock release. I haven't tested it lately to see if it works or not. If neither of the above describes your situation, and you are not using a custom kernel, and _are_ using an official Red Hat kernel, then please post your X server config file, log file, and the output of /var/log/messages, as you are definitely experiencing a unique problem. Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
