On Sunday 07 December 2003 21:11, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Mariano Kamp wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have an ATI Radeon 9800 XL card and want to use it with > > debian/unstable Kernel 2.6. > > > > From what my googling turned up so far I would need XFree 4.3? > > > > In unstable I "only" found XFree 4.1. On apt-get.org I found XFree 4.3 > > for woody. Would I be able to use it? Any other place I can go for? > > > > Cheers, > > Mariano > > The Radeon 9800 is only supported by ATI's proprietary driver > (if you want 3D accel), available here: > > http://www.ati.com/support/products/workstation/firegl8800/linux/firegl8800 >linuxdrivers.html > > That being the case, you can stick with XFree 4.1 or 4.2, as there > are versions of the driver for XFree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3. > > The latest version supposedly works with the new 2.6 kernel, but > I haven't tried. Thanks very much for the information. Actually one reason I was going for this computer was that I thought I could get rid of the nvidia troubles and get all I need from mainstream. From what I understand so dar that even would'nt be the case when XFree 4.3 would have been in Debian already, right?
So I need to lookup alien to get this rpm driver to work, right? Cheers, Mariano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
