FC1 and Radeon 9800XT

[Youssef Makki]

Any specific reason you don't want to use ATI's drivers?

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 22:59, Kevin Sigl wrote:
> 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
>