In addition to my earlier post I should mention that my card is an AGP card and i still have the problem :(( Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Gross" <grossk@mail.tds.net> To: <newbie@XFree86.Org> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 7:16 AM Subject: Re: Radeon 32meg sdr PCI > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
