On Wed, 8 May 2002, Roger E. Steinmetz wrote: > 05/08/02 > > I just installed RedHat Linux 7.0 on my system. > > There where some video drivers for ATI chipsets but not for a Radeon 8500 with 64MB video ram > > My questions are: > 1) Is there a driver for the Radeon 8500 with 64MB of video ram? > 2) If there is no driver for the above what can I substitue for the above, to use XWindows efficiently? > As far as I'm aware RH7.0 used XFree86-3.3.6 and contained no specific support for Radeon chips. The latest version of RH (7.3) contains 2D acceleration support using XFree86-4.2.0. There is no 3D acceleration available with XFree86 for the Radeon8500. There is supposed to be a commercial proprietary driver from either Xi Graphics or Metro X. There was some talk of starting a snail-mail letter campaign to let ATI know that we want better support for XFree86. Is anyone still interested (I'll put up a geocities page with suggested points to make and relevant addresses if there's any interest) -Oisin
