Installing FC2 on Intel 925X PCI Express with ATi Radeon X800

[Frans Coppens]

Hi Hans,

I think I stick to the more conventional Intel 865G chipset and the
radeon 9800 PRO to keep myself away from a lot of mischief and
annoyances. I've read some rather negative reviews about intel's new pci
express architecture and ddr2. There will be litte as no performance
advantage. As for the radeon X800. I emailed ATi's linux dev team twice
but no answer. I think a driver is not to be expected very soon from
ATi. 

Nevertheless, your help is really appreciated.

Cheers,

Frans

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 11:20, Hans Müller wrote:
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> Am Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2004 09:15 schrieb Frans Coppens:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm about to buy a new PC but first I want to make sure that FC2 (burned
> > DVD ISO) will install on it.
> >
> > The new PC contains an Intel 925X PCI Express chipset with ICH6-R, a ATi
> > X800 graphics adapter, Soundblaster Audigy 2 and a Serial-ATA harddrive
> > interface.
> >
> > The only thing I want to know is if FC2 will install on it and if X.org
> > will be able to give me graphical desktop. I know there isn't a driver
> > from ATi yet, but maybe I can do something with the built in radeon
> > framebuffer driver in the kernel.
> >
> > I tried google and countless forums but no satisfying answer yet.
> >
> > Hope you guys can help me out.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Frans Coppens
> The biggest problem ist the ATI card. There are no drivers that work with FC2 
> and the video drivers from ATI and Nvida. So you can only use the 2d driver 
> of X.org. Or you build you own kernel. The software raid function will not 
> work for the ICH6-R. The best way is try to boot the first CD and look can 
> you acess your Serial HDD. The SB is not a problem i have the same.
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