"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > 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. > really? well, I am running RedHat 9 with a Radeon 7000. Redhat can detect the device (so it does indeed look supported) but I can't get direct rendering (or any other sort of 3d hardware acceleration) working. I've tried installing dri, but it all it does is cause segfaults when I try to run glxgears. I've gone through every trouble shooting tip and nothing seems to work. thanks, sol _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
