FC1 and Radeon 9800XT

[Kevin Sigl]

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@xfree86.org/msg11075.html