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On 8/15/06, Ian Kabeary <omega21@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi there, |
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> My laptop has a Radeon 9100. Toshiba advertised a 9000 so at the time I was |
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> happy. Then I realized that the proprietary ATi drivers dont give this card |
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> 3d acceleration, which it is totally capable of. Anyway, I tried the wiki |
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> instructions on getting this card to work but they are quite cryptic the way |
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> they have written them. It kind of branches off into three different ways of |
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> doing it, but you never know what reading to skip and what to do. |
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> I got reasonably far. What I did was take the support for the direct |
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> rendering manager out of the kernel, while including the Radeon driver and |
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> other associated things. For the purposes of this support request, I do not |
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> believe they are completely relevant. After doing what I think it was that I |
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> should do, I started X. (I have 7.1.1 by the way). What I end up with is |
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> that it cant find the drivers because the version of the radeon driver |
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> version doesn't match the server version or something? I have no idea what |
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> that means. |
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> Projects use waaaay different versioning systems. Seriously, I have no clue |
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> what its going on about! :) Is this a cryptic way of saying the driver wants |
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> Xorg < 7.0? |
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Xorg 7.0 should be fine. Nvidia and ati have not released drivers that |
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work with 7.1 yet. In my experience, ati drivers are hell to get |
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working (I never did get them working in the end - but I do have |
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friends who have gotten them up and running) so I wish you luck. |
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Neil Isaac |
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isaac.neil@×××××.com |
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