My initial experiances with FC2-test2

[Chris Chabot]

I've tried xorg's generic radeon driver, and it worked fine! Gave it a 
good try for a day, and haven't found any glitches.. My vote would be to 
include the chipset id in hwdata :-)

Ps, performance is ofcource a bit slower then the ati drivers, but i 
think for most ppl 'just works' is preferable over 'if you perform this 
voodoo magic it might work, and a little faster' :-)

Thanks for the hints,

    -- Chris

Jeremy Katz wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 14:53 +0200, Chris Chabot wrote:
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>>1) My machine is currently equiped with a ATI Radeon 9800XT card, 
>>XFree86 (scrap that, xorg nowadays) has no support for it, and your 
>>forced to run in VESA mode. While this is fine for a server machine 
>>where you only run the occasional vnc server or a system-config-... 
>>tool, for a workstation it's just to damn dog slow.. 
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>Can you trying using the radeon driver with xorg-x11?  Although hwdata
>stuff hasn't been updated yet, the radeon driver in xorg-x11 should
>support a lot of the newer stuff (at least for 2d).
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>Jeremy
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