Newer ATI Radeon, ATI FireGL, and Nvidia GeForce/Quadrohardwaresupport

[Peter Robinson]

> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
>>> exclusive to Fedora Core test 3 and later.  Also, this video
>>> hardware support will also be released as an update for Red Hat
>>> Linux 9 in the near future, as:
>>>
>>>	XFree86-4.3.0-2.90.$RAWHIDE_RELEASE_NUMBER
>>>
>>
>>Yay, any chance of getting the nvidia gpl agp nforce drivers as part of an
>>updated kernel package that's released at the same time?
>
> You'd have to ask a kernel developer about that.  Dave Jones is
> the Fedora kernel maintainer now, perhaps if he's reading he can
> comment.  Otherwise you might want to post an RFE in bugzilla
> detailing the problem and your preferred solution.

I would have thought it would be in Fedora as its in the vanilla kernel that the
fedora kernel is based on, although I must admit that I haven't checked as the two
fedora machines (laptop and a build/test machine) don't have the chipset.

The kernel I would like it added to is the RH9 kernel... :-)

I think I'll add it as a RFE, I was sort of standing back so as not to be a pain but
it seems too good an opportunity :-)

> Personally though, I'm uninvolved with the kernel for the most
> part.
>
>>The 2.4.20 kernel that comes with 9 just missed out on the
>>driver for this (I think it was included with the 2.4.21 kernel)
>>so my Radeon 9200 Pro has been running without agp accel and
>>with a ChipId entry to get it working. The new xfree package
>>will solve half the problem and I'm sure I'm not the only person
>>with a nforce board and I wouldn't have thought they would be
>>that invasive or effect anything else in the kernel.
>>
>>Lspci entry FYI (in the list below as far as I can tell :-)
>>
>>03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5961
>>(rev 01)
>
> That's in 4.3.0.  The pcitable wont autodetect it though.  I
> might have to issue a hwdata package update for that if Bill
> doesn't mind.

That would be nice although auto detect isn't essential as I can get it working
without auto detect, but it would allow easy install on quiet a few newer machines
as I have found that a lot of people choose the 9200 Pro as its quiet fast but
doesn't require active cooling like the cards above it so its great for someone who
doesn't need the lastest and would prefer less noise :-)

pete

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