On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:40:48 +0100, Philip Pawley <philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have an ASUS SK8V motherboard and Opteron 146 with an ASUS video card powered by the ATI Radeon 9200SE chip. > I installed Fedora Core for x86_64. > > The installation always hangs on boot-up, unless I set the AGP in the bios to 4x instead of 8x. > > I have a lot of questions:- > > 1. Is it true that the Radeon driver only supports 4x? at the moment yes, however there was an 8x patch floating around a while ago, however, experience shows you won't really see any difference in performance between 4x and 8x. > 2. If so, is 8x support likely soon? there is a patch floating around. I suppose it needs more testing then someone needs to apply it to cvs. > 3. I take it the ATI XFree86 driver won't work for xorg - is that correct?? Ati's binary drivers work fine with xorg. one of the goals of the project to is to maintain compatibility with nvidia and ati's binary drivers. > 4. I don't understand the difference between XFree86 and xorg. Can you point me to an explanation Due to a variety of reasons, xorg forked from xfree86 right before xfree86 4.4.0 was released. xorg retains the old xfree86 license and, in my opinion, is more accepting of community involvement. > 5. In the meantime, is there another way of making it work, without having to set the bios to 4x? I'm not sure. agpgart or the kernel agp driver should set it correctly assuming you have 4x mode specified in your X config. Or just set the BIOS to 4x. the agp kernel driver (both linx and windows) should be able to change to the proper mode at run time. > 6. If there isn't, I think I would like to get a video card with about the same capabilities that is fully supported in Fedora Core. What do you suggest? the 9200 should be fine. see above comments. > > Thanks for your time, good luck, Alex > > Philip Pawley > _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
