RE: Re: Help: radeon 9700 question - need working config

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Try with ATI drivers from ati home page

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]En
> nombre de Alex Deucher
> Enviado el: lunes, 29 de diciembre de 2003 14:05
> Para: waustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Asunto:  Re: Help: radeon 9700 question - need working config
> 
> 
> you may a newer version of xfree86.  I'm not familiar with what is
> included with suse 9.  An xfree86 log would be helpful.  Also for help
> related inquiries please use the xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx ML.
> 
> Alex
> 
> --- "William W. Austin" <waustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Apologies in advance for this, but I've been pulling my hair out for
> > hours on this one.
> > 
> > My nephew (lives several hundred miles away) wanted to install linux
> > on
> > his formerly win-xp machine (athlon 2800 xp, 512 MB, 2 large drives,
> > etc.) with Radeon 9700 Pro (128 MB) video card.  He went out and
> > bought
> > Suse 9 and did a completely clean install (with me on the other end
> > of
> > the phone line the whole time - he's new to anything not from MS). 
> > Everything installed cleanly and the machine booted successfully,
> > HOWEVER:
> > 
> > The video card is not recognized.  It is a Radeon 9700 Pro with 128
> > Mb
> > of memory (AGP) and works correctly under the other OS, but although
> > it
> > shows up in scanpci and lspci, the setup utility on Suse bombs and
> > cannot set up the card.  He is also singularly unable to 
> run a simple
> > command (rpm -q XFree86) to tell me the version on that 
> machine - and
> > I
> > haven't been able to get the info from any Suse website (and his net
> > access is temporarily down until school starts again in January).
> > 
> > I've spent nearly the entire day (11 hours) with him on the phone
> > trying
> > to find a solution but I nave other cards - no radeons - and my
> > config
> > files don't help here).  XFre86 -configure fails, unable to find the
> > device.  If anyone has a working XF86Config file they can email me,
> > I'd
> > greatly appreciate it (as a last effort before I tell him 
> to turn off
> > linux until I can go visit him in 3 weeks).   I'm going out of town
> > and
> > he is nearly desparate to get X up and running on this machine.
> > 
> > Please feel free to mail me privately if you can help.
> > 
> > Thanks and apologies for wasting the bandwidth.
> > 
> > Bill Austin
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > William W. Austin                          waustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 					   
> bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >                "Life is just a phase I'm going through..."
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