On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:14:49PM -0400, The Smiths wrote: > I have just purchased a Radeon 9200 grahpics card and find that the > XFree86 4.3 I have installed does not in fact have that card listed in > the card database. I understand from some research I have done on the > XFree web sites though that it is in fact supported now! Yippee! > > It is the RV280 engine, but will not configure via sax2 in my SuSE 8.2 > setup. Just kicks out when it can't find the card. I haven't seen any > updates recently for SuSE binaries and could probably update things from > XFree86 latest stable release, if I knew how! :o) > > In looking over all that, it didn't quite make sense to me in the way I > am familar with installing, building source files. So here come the > questions. > > Anyone running this card in SuSE or others with 4.3 presently? Is 3D > supported from XFree or do you need to use the ATI drivers for that? > > Are there new binaries for SuSE somewhere? If not, how do you compile > and install the newer stuff to use that card? Hi Patrick, Unfortunately, Radeon 9200 support is not included in the base XFree86 4.3.0 distribution. Adding it on is a job for various distributors - Debian and Red Hat add it on, but apparently SuSE haven't. I think your best bet would be to contact your distributor directly and ask them to include Hui Yu's Radeon patchset; if they don't know where to get it, point them at me. Cheers! :) d -- Daniel Stone <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.debian.org - http://www.kde.org - http://www.freedesktop.org "Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement" -- Havoc Pennington, gnome-list
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