Will any ATI cards run on linux?

[Brian Cluff]

I would recommend the upgrade.  4.2.0 has been out for several months
now, and I've had a whole lot less problems with it than I've had with
4.1.0.

Brian Cluff

On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 22:23, George Toft wrote:
> I'm still using 4.1.0 - it does make a difference.  The ATI site points
> me to SuSE's 4.2.0 updates.  I'm just trying to avoid an X upgrade :( 
> It's too bleeding edge for me.
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> George
> 
> 
> 
> Bryce C wrote:
> > 
> > Here's an exert from my XF86Config-4 file:
> > Section "Device"
> >     Identifier  "ATI Radeon"
> >     VendorName  "Unknown"
> >     BoardName   "Unknown"
> >     Driver      "radeon"
> > #    VideoRam    32768
> >     # Clock lines
> > 
> >     # Uncomment following option if you see a big white block
> >     # instead of the cursor!
> >     #    Option      "sw_cursor"
> > 
> >     Option      "AGPMode"  "1"
> >     Option      "DPMS"  "on"
> > EndSection
> > 
> > Try that and see if it works better.  Also, I'm using the driver from
> > XFree86-4.2.0-10mdk if that makes any difference (probably).  In
> > addition, I used Mandrake's XFDrake to configure it.  Good luck.
> > 
> > On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 20:25, George Toft wrote:
> > > I just installed (today) a Radeon 7500 AGP 32MB and it sucked.  Sax
> > > couldn't figure out what xserver to use, so it chose the framebuffer
> > > fbdev, and the refresh was horrid (gave me a headache).  The video was
> > > really slow - I could watch it repaint the screen as I resized a window.
> > >
> > > What did you do to get it working so well?
> > >
> > > George
> > >
> > >
> > > Bryce C wrote:
> > > >
> > > > My Radeon 7xxx AGP retail (not oem) works just great.  Otherwise, you
> > > > wouldn't be seeing this as I would not be able to see what I was sending
> > > > you, or even that you had asked.  The only issue i've found is no
> > > > support for its tv-out and the machine completely locks up when I turn
> > > > anti-aliasing on in armagetron.  I don't have any other games but get
> > > > decent frame rates, upwards of 500 on the still armagetron images and
> > > > 100 in play.  Enjoy!
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 12:15, Mark Berkwitt wrote:
> > > > > Will any ATI cards run on linux?
> > > > > If so, which ones.
> > > > > I need to buy some cards for light gaming.
> > > > >
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