On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Shakil Anwar wrote: >Is there any way to get a Radeon 7000 to work with Red Hat 8 >(which uses XFree86 4.2.x). Of course.. Radeon 7000 has been supported since Red Hat Linux 7.2, and backported to 7.1 via an XFree86 update also. >I see that it is supported by XFree86 4.3.x which is installed >by Red Hat 9 and indeed this works fine on my system. However I >really need to use RH8. Can I simply install XFree86 4.3 onto >RH8 to resolve this ?? XFree86 4.3.0 is not in any way required for Radeon 7000. The stock default supplied X server with Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, and 9 all support Radeon 7000 out of the box. >I am a Linux newbie so apologies if this is a dumb question but >I have spent some time searching the web for an answer and got a >useless reply from Connect3D support (my Radeon 7000 supplier). If Radeon 7000 does not work for you in Red Hat Linux 8.0 out of the box, present the details of the problem you experience, and most likely you are just doing something wrong, and someone can help you get it working properly. Generally speaking: redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig ... should result in a working Radeon 7000 setup. >Thanks. Also if I do need to install XFree86 4.3.x then is there >an .rpm anywhere ? You don't need to install 4.3.0. I have rpms for Red Hat Linux 8.0 and higher however, and instructions on how to obtain and use them were posted to xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx about a month or so ago, and should appear in the mailing list archives if anyone is interested.. You really do not need 4.3.0 however. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
