On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 18:41:58 -0400, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 17:21:16 -0500 > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > If that is your expectation, Fedora isn't the distro for you. Fedora is > > not going to hold up kernel development to wait for propreitary video > > drivers to be released. > > And it isn't gonna worry about breaking older cards that used to work > fine either :-). Been killing time this weekend trying to resurrect > a random collection of old hardware and Fedora 8 talks to my ancient radeon > 7200 just fine, anything after fedora 8 just turns the screen into > multi-color vertical lines (I can't even get the vesa driver to work). I think eventually Airlie will get back to making some of the older cards work better. It just doesn't seem to be high priority right now. Not having working 3d on any of my home systems makes it hard to properly test things related to the games spin. > I haven't yet found a distro that can both talk to the radeon 7200 and > the pci-e gigabit ethernet adapter. Have you tried the nomodeset kernel parameter? I use that for my rv280 based 9200. The 7200 is based on a r100 chip, but you might have some luck with that. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
