On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:36:28AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Sunday 11 January 2004 07:08, hanasaki wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Trying to get the ATI radeon driver build for an ATI 9000 board. > > Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.x > > I am interested in the replies to this, because I have just ordered an ATI9200 > board to replace an aging nvidia based card because I was fed up with the > lack of opensource drivers for it. > > My understanding had been that with Xfree v 4.x release the only kernel level > support that was needed with the "dri" interface, and that the video card > drivers then came within the xfree-xserver package. If not, there appears to > be a web site (http://dri.sf.net) where they can be got from (as modules to > xfree). > > You seem to be contemplating a different approach - so I am now confused with > what I thought I was going to have to do when my card arrived
The "dri" approach from sourceforge.net will work fine for your card. The other approach mentioned in the previous message uses the binary provided by the ati company (binary only). In my case, I am using a ati radeon 9800, for this card there is no "open dri", so I am stuck with the binary, which is a pain due to conflicting xlibmesaxxxx related (I solved this by putting a = (hold) to it). If you can use dri, go for it, don't worry about the binary from ati. The other solution is to use the "vesa" driver, that seems to work always (?), but whose output in my case is not very good. HTH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
