Has anybody managed to get a Raedeon 9000 pro graphics card working in 3D on Suse 8.2. Regards Nick Daniels
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:28:32PM +0100, Nick Daniels wrote:
Has anybody managed to get a Raedeon 9000 pro graphics card working in 3D on Suse 8.2. Regards Nick Daniels
My Radeon 9000 Pro works great here. Not on SuSE though -- Gentoo. I'm using the open source DRI drivers from http://dri.sf.net and XFree86 4.3.0.
"emerge xfree-drm" and edit 1 or 2 lines in /etc/X11/XF86Config is all that's needed on Gentoo. ;)
Nick Daniels wrote:
Has anybody managed to get a Raedeon 9000 pro graphics card working in 3D on Suse 8.2.
I've got a 9800 and got it working just fine doing the following:
1) Download the official ATI driver from http://www.ati.com. 2) ENSURE that you have kernel sources installed!! 3) Install the RPM which should then start building the kernel modules. 4) Run fglrxconfig and go through the options to configure X. 5) Start X and you should have 3D acceleration and full support!
As a matter of interest, Roger Whittaker from SuSE was kind enough to forward me SuSE 9 Professional. My initial opinion is that it's much slower to install (both in terms of an extremely sluggish X installer and during the DVD/CD file copy - it was so slow that I aborted the installation at one point, and I've a 3.2Ghz P4 machine!) and I noticed that the BIOS was doing some very strange things - my Dell 8300 has a OS Install option which reduces the memory to 256Mb regardless of however much is installed. Every time I booted the machine I got this message that the amount of RAM in the machine has changed. It was only until I replaced SuSE Professional 9's boot loader that it went away.
I'm now running Fedora Core test release 3 which has so far proven to be a very stable and interesting distro. I may change my mind and install Debian or Gentoo later on, but I'm keen on exploring Fedora for the moment as that's thrown up a few quirks that need reporting :)
Regards,
Martyn
On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 22:22 Europe/London, Martyn Drake wrote:
I'm now running Fedora Core test release 3 which has so far proven to be a very stable and interesting distro. I may change my mind and install Debian or Gentoo later on, but I'm keen on exploring Fedora for the moment as that's thrown up a few quirks that need reporting :)
Many people I know switched to Gentoo from Debian.. reasons were:
a) Every time, xfree package gets released. You somewhat can't escape the option of having it to rewrite your XF86Config-4 file. An ex-enlightenment developer really went mad when he found out it overwrote his perfectly configured X.
b) Configuration files somewhat goes funny. Another person reported it overwrote his exim4 and apache settings. A lot of emails went missing and that wasn't happen (Even I wasn't happy since I got important emails.. *whines*)
c) Some packages just keep breaking for me (okay, I was running unstable, that's the hint ;). Okay, I should have really reported it but I won't. The last experience of reporting a package was terrible and I was reported by the package maintainer that I was wasting his time. It was one of those bugs that some people can reproduce yet he rejected it. It's unfair world sometimes ;)
I can go on and on. However, every distribution is never 100% perfect! =)
Now I need a cup of tea and fresh bowl of cornflakes....
C
On 2003-10-16 08:40:39 +0100 Craig c@wizball.co.uk wrote:
a) Every time, xfree package gets released. You somewhat can't escape the option of having it to rewrite your XF86Config-4 file. An ex-enlightenment developer really went mad when he found out it overwrote his perfectly configured X.
I don't know this case (and I think at least 2 E developers tend to go mad at the drop of a hat), but I think that you can easily "escape" it by answering "No" when it asks you whether debconf should manage your XF86Config, either at install or on dpkg-reconfigure.
b) Configuration files somewhat goes funny. Another person reported it overwrote his exim4 and apache settings. [...]
It shouldn't. All config files should be marked as Conffiles and won't be overwritten unless you tell it to. Time to report a bug.
c) Some packages just keep breaking for me [...]
"There are bugs"? Gentoo is not bug-free.
last experience of reporting a package was terrible and I was reported by the package maintainer that I was wasting his time. It was one of those bugs that some people can reproduce yet he rejected it. It's unfair world sometimes ;)
Yeah, in 1000+ developers, you get a few morons, but most of them can be worked around. I had a far worse time trying to report gentoo's bugs than I've ever had on Debian. There don't seem to be any equivalents for reportbug or querybts, you have to register in order to report a bug and when you do, you are quite likely to have it closed if it is the slightest bit unclear (best practice is to ask questions and tag as moreinfo). That was part of the reason I ditched gentoo.
Can anyone suggest who in the Norwich area might provide rack space for a computer and give it access to a reasonably fast pipe for a sensible monthly fee? I'd consider the likes of uk2.net but am put off by the need to sign up for a substantial period; also they're too damn far away and I want to use my own kit. This is for a development project that may be of a temporary nature, depending on outcome, so a long-term commitment isn't wanted.
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