Any specific reason you don't want to use ATI's drivers? On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 22:59, Kevin Sigl wrote: > Emil Valsson wrote: > > > I have the following setup: > > > > Gigabyte GA-8KNXP (Intel i875P) > > Kingston HyperX 2x256MB > > ATi Radeon 9800XT > > > > Im having problems getting the graphic card to function correctly. Anyone > > have suggestions on howto get it to work properly? Fedora didn't seem to > > find it automaticly. :( > > warning: user with limited experience in these things. Maybe this is a good > time for someone to tell me if I'm doing anything stupid here. > > The next 2 files I changed are in /usr/share/hwdata/. I don't know if both > changes were required. I fetched the latest pci.ids file from > http://pciids.sf.net/ because the file doesn't have the IDs for the 9600XT. > (not even sure what uses this) Then I added these lines to the Cards file: > > NAME ATI Radeon 9600 XT > CHIPSET R300 > DRIVER radeon > LINE #Option "nodri" > > After this I ended up rebooting (don't know if this is required but the > system locked up) After which I noticed that redhat-config-xfree86 started > detecting both my monitor and videocard correctly. > > A problem then arose with the radeon driver. Xwindows would lock up after I > started it. There are a few bugs open that appear to be this issue. Ond clued > me in to setting Option "XaaNoScreenToScreenCopy" in the Screen section of > the XF86Config file. A couple bugs are 109256 and 108729. > > Couple other articles of interest: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/7/32 and > http://www.mail-archive.com/xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx/msg11075.html >
