The FireGL2/3/4 is not supported under XFree86 4.3.x. The last release was
over a year ago for 4.2 and glibc22. I was in a similar situation with a
FireGL4 with RH9. ATI did not respond to my inquiries about a new driver.
I confirmed the support issue with some of the IBM folks that were involved
in building systems a couple of years ago that included these cards from
the factory. As a result, I replaced the FireGL4 with an nVidia card and
gave the FireGL4 to a Windows user. ATI still provides Windows support for
the card.
Interestingly enough when I recently inquired about the lack of support for
the FireGL T2 in the IBM Thinkpad R50p, ATI responded right away. They
acknowledge the problem and had an updated driver available on the web site
within a couple of weeks (posted 12/29/2003).
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Lloyd A. Treinish
Mathematical Sciences
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
1101 Kitchawan Road
P. O. Box 218
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
914-945-2770 (voice)
914-945-3434 (facsimile)
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Sundar
Ranganathan To: XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx
<sundar@reflexisi cc:
nc.com> Subject: IBM FireGL2 Driver
Sent by:
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ee86.Org
01/07/2004 04:42
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Dear Sir/Madam,
Is the above card supported or likely to be supported on XFree86 ?
Thanks
Sundar
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