On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, michael keren wrote: >I'm using Linux redhat 7.2, and i'm having a problem >with my graphic adapter driver. My graphic adapter >driver doesn't listed in the linux drivers library. My >graphic adapter is gigabyte ati radeon 9200se 128mb. >Could i request driver for my graphic adapter...?thanks Red Hat Linux 7.2 nowadays is very ancient, you should upgrade to Red Hat Linux 9 at least, as 7.x becomes unsupported Dec 31, 2003. Also, the XFree86 release in that version of the operating system is 4.1.0 which is extremely ancient. The Radeon 9200SE is a brand new video card, and is not even supported in the latest official XFree86 release, however it might work in XFree86 4.3.0 (included in Red Hat Linux 9) if you use the ChipID directive (man XF86Config) and tell the X server that it is a Radeon 9000. Rawhide XFree86 contains support for the newer models of Radeon, however the 9200SE is not yet supported. XFree86 developmental/experimental CVS head has support for the latest cards, and I plan on backporting the rest of the ATI Radeon support once I have spare time on a weekend to fiddle with it (hopefully soon). So, here are your options roughly: - Upgrade to Red Hat Linux 9, and fake the card is a 9000 via the config file ChipID option. This should work for 2D, and might possibly even allow 3D acceleration to work as well. - Wait a short while for the next Red Hat OS release "Fedora Core 1" to be released. That will occur very soon, and will contain support for this card out of the box, or via an update shortly after (depending on if I have time to hack on it before the final release). - Investigate if ATI's latest proprietary binary only drivers on their website support this card or not currently, and use that instead. ATI's drivers are available usually for XFree86 releases 4.1.0, 4.2.x, and 4.3.0. I don't know if they support 9200SE yet or not however. - Use the "vesa" driver for now until official XFree86 support for this card is available. - Hack the PCI IDs for this card into the Radeon driver source code, and recompile it yourself. If you've never compiled XFree86 before, this one will be lots of fun. ;o) - Try using Alan Hourihane's XFree86 CVS head binary drivers, if they're up to date, they should have 9200SE support in them I believe. While it's unfortunate you've got a card that is not yet officially supported, the variety of options I've presented above should give you something useable in less than an hour, and give hope for the future at least. ;o) Hope this helps you out. Take care, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
