Guest BlackSnow Posted September 24, 2002 Report Share Posted September 24, 2002 Ordered one of these cards today.....anyone know if ATI cards are alright with Linux? Should have really asked first but Dabs is too tempting :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted September 25, 2002 Report Share Posted September 25, 2002 Yes, you should have asked. Here's my advice: Don't buy UT2003. I hope you weren't expecting it to actually work with that card anyhow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BlackSnow Posted September 25, 2002 Report Share Posted September 25, 2002 Why? it cant be worse than my geforce 2 mx400 lol It was only £50 anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted September 25, 2002 Report Share Posted September 25, 2002 Uhh, your GF2MX will actually run the game, whereas the Radeon won't. Unless you install Windows, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted September 25, 2002 Report Share Posted September 25, 2002 Radeons can be a kick in the head to make worth in linux (as I found earlier), but doable. Just need the DRI driver and you can make it work in X The driver should be available here http://dri.sourceforge.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted September 25, 2002 Report Share Posted September 25, 2002 Yeah, you can get 3D to work, but you can't play UT2003. Period. At least not yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbbros Posted September 25, 2002 Report Share Posted September 25, 2002 The DRI drivers tilll 23/09 don't recognize the Radeon 9000 (I haven't tried later builds, but remember, the Radeon 8500 has the R200 chip, while the 9000 has the R250). Anyway, the best idea is to download the latest r200 DRI driver from http://dri.sf.net and then "fool" X to make it recognize the card as an ATI Radeon 8500. This way, you'll get at least 2D acceleration enabled till proper drivers come out. The idea is to add the line ChipID 0x4242 to the Device section in XF86Config-4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raenius Posted October 5, 2002 Report Share Posted October 5, 2002 :( Man once again i really should have done my research. I saw all those fancy graphs and thought a company like this in competition with Nvidia has to have drivers. But nope no drivers, support only available for there older lines. Well if drivers aren't out soon i'll just switch back to nvidia for good. Should have known better Oh well live and learn. Anyway does fooling X work for this card also (Radeon 9700)? If so were do i go to get the chip ID? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbbros Posted October 5, 2002 Report Share Posted October 5, 2002 Get the MOST RECENT snapshot from DRI first, as the older ones had a glibc incompatibility that made X crash hopelessly. Unpack the archive, cd to the "dripkg" directory and run "./install.sh" as root. Then edit your XF86Config-4 file. In the "Device Section" put ChipID 0x4242 right above "EndSection" and don't forget to add Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection in the file, to make direct rendering accessible for non-root users. (not sure if it will work with the R9700 as it uses the r300 chip, but it's worth a shot!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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