ATI 9600 + SuSE 8.2 = Grayer hair

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Author: Carl Parrish
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Subject: ATI 9600 + SuSE 8.2 = Grayer hair
Please share. I'm having the same issue with Mesa. with my Radeon 8500DV
All in wonder card. I've installed the ATI drivers as well but haven't
had time to mess with it to get 3D working.

On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 21:18, plug wrote:
> SuSE 9 DOES support the Radeon 9600. However, only in 2D mode... So, after a great deal more horsing around, I managed to get full 3D acceleration working. If anyone is interested, I can give fairly user friendly instructions, now...
> -Erik Bixby
>
> >>> 11/16/03 15:55 PM >>>
> On Sunday 16 November 2003 11:45 am, plug wrote:
> > Does anybody out there have any experience with getting a ATI 9600 video
> > card working with Linux? I've been having quite a time... I just built
> > what I would classify as a fairly mainstream machine, ASUS mobo, 512M
> > Corsair, 2600+ Athlon, Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro. The drivers appear to
> > compile properly, as per ATI's directions. But, I can't seem to get rid of
> > the Mesa software OpenGL renderer... Please let me know if anyone feels
> > like playing with this mess--I can come to you. -Erik Bixby
>
> Have you checked on suse's supported hardware? If the card isn't auto
> detected then the card probably isn't supported. However, suse 9.0 is out
> and might be supported in that one.

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