I have a Radeon 700 PCI and eventually found that the PCI versions of the
Radeon cards are not well supported but the AGP are. You can get them to
work but currently I can only get 2D accelleration. Any attempt to get 3D
causes a lock up. The following are the important parts of my XF86Config.
You will most likely have to hand edit the file to set this up.
There will be other "Section"s but these are the ones I created or altered.
In the Modules section the important part is the commenting out of dri by
placing a '#" as the first non blank character on the line.
In the Device section the BusID line will most likely be differant on your
machine as this depends on the slot the oards in and other cards in the
machine.
In the Screen sction you will have to change the line that reads Monitor
"Monitor0" so that Monitor0 matches what ever the identifier line in the
Monitor section declares.
Good luck. It took me about 2 weeks of reading and experimenting to get this
working as good as it is. I've read a number of comments on the boards that
make me hope that I may soon be able to get 3D Accelleration working. If
this happens I will probably post something here because the Radeon PCI
problem crops up on this list periodicaly.
Section "Module"
SubSection "extmod"
# option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
Load "xie"
Load "pex5"
Load "glx"
#Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "i2c"
Load "ddc"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "AtiRadeon"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI"
BusID "PCI:0:18:0"
option "nodri"
VideoRam 32768
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "AtiRadeon"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
On Sunday 11 August 2002 02:35 pm, Brian wrote:
> I have a very similar setup as the last poster for the Radeon 32meg
> sdr. And I have EXACTLY the same problem. I have been fighting with
> this for the longest time and have yet to see anybody answer the
> question. I would really appreciate it if someone could share their
> knowledge about the problem and help us guys out with this problem.
>
> In case you missed the problem he mentiioned, what happens is when you
> try to use the DRI drivers to get 3d acceleration you get a screen
> that's really wierd at the top, like all the pixels of the screen are
> bunched together in a 2 or 3 inch space, the bottom of the screen is a
> nice solid color and the mouuse pointer is a perfectly clear X that can
> be moved all over the screen. I get this anytime I try to upgrade to an
> XFree release that is supposed to support 3d acceleration for my card,
> 4.1, 4.2. so on and so forth, 4.0 works beautifully with the card, but I
> have no 3d acceleration.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
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