I got a email sent to me on this subject and include here in: ~~~~ Re: bug#289584 [ati/radeon] does not support unknown chipset (0x5960) rev 1 [Radeon 9250] Date: Today 01:42:01 pm From: "Paul A. Judd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Best Attempt / PAJ esq.) To: kraehe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Micheal, I manually changed driver from ati to radeon and it worked ok. I also enabled all modules except xtt and it still worked. Previously I had not put in all modules as some did not load and others were not recommended for the ati/radeon as per xfree/ati websites guides. I also get the 1024x768 Pixel (347x260mm) format to load ( very nice, just like old Caldera set up on old machine with Tseng card ) rather than the 800x600. I was told ??gears?? application was a way of checking 3D accelleration but haven't found it yet. If dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 is used, the radeon driver is ***not*** listed, only ati, so only your manual method of driver specification works.
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:39 am, kraehe wrote: > Moin Paul, > > I also just got a 9250 today - and I cursed it, first! X -configure > gave a nice 800x600 on my 19" Eizo flatscreen, because of vesa timings, > and changing Driver to "ati" resulted in (EE) No devices detected. > > I found an easy solution change 'Driver "ati"' to 'Driver "radeon"' > and you might even have some low 3D accelleration from the normal > XFree86 driver. I'm not an XFree hacker - but I guess, that the ati > driver is checking for every ati card, and only detects those he > knows, to select the radeon or mach driver. The radeon driver itself > just only checks if the card is a Radeon, and the 9250 is one ;) > > Please check it - and close the bug together with a tip to solve > it, if my tip solves your problem. > > Bye Michael ~~~~ Re: bug#289584 [ati/radeon] does not support unknown chipset (0x5960) rev 1 [Radeon 9250] Date: Today 10:17:56 pm From: kraehe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul A. Judd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Moin Paul A. Judd, > If dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 is used, the radeon driver is ***not*** > listed, only ati, so only your manual method of driver specification works. ok - nice - so i have someone to confirm that my workaround around ATI driver autodection works. > I was told ??gears?? application was a way of checking 3D accelleration but > haven't found it yet. xbase-clients -> glxinfo & glxgears Bye Michael -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNA:+.? 'CED+2+:::Linux:2.4.29'UNZ+1' http://www.xml-edifact.org/ CETERUM CENSEO WINDOWS ESSE DELENDAM ~~~~ Re: bug#289584 [ati/radeon] does not support unknown chipset (0x5960) rev 1 [Radeon 9250] Date: Today 11:24:36 pm From: "Paul A. Judd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Best Attempt / PAJ esq.) To: kraehe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Micheal, Thanks/that's ok. I got: 6249 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1249.800 FPS 7742 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1548.400 FPS 7742 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1548.400 FPS 7741 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1548.200 FPS Is that good/ok/so-so? ~~~ On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:17 pm, kraehe wrote: > Moin Paul A. Judd, > > > If dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 is used, the radeon driver is > > ***not*** listed, only ati, so only your manual method of driver > > specification works. > > ok - nice - so i have someone to confirm that my workaround around ATI > driver autodection works. > > > I was told ??gears?? application was a way of checking 3D accelleration > > but haven't found it yet. > > xbase-clients -> glxinfo & glxgears > > Bye Michael -- ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.virtual.net.au/~paje> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
