Help Radeon 8500 Wont work!

raid517 · Jan 19, 2003, 10:42 AM

Hi I wonder if anyone can help me, I installed the latest Xfree version from from Mandrake 9.0 v 4.3 (after satisfying a load of dependancies) and I downloaded the newst kernel and the latest drivers for my ATI video card from the DRI project. I got as far as the bit about installing the lastest X free version, installing the new Kernel and the new kernel source, but when it comes to getting my card to work to give good 3D I get a bit lost. There are no real installationl instructions for the DRI radeon drivers, and no indication, if one can get them to install how to get 3D working properly. This function has always been missing from my card ever since I bought it, which is why I gave up on Linux a couple of times, as I like my hardware to be supported. I also want to play some games in Linux. Open GL apprears to be working but there is no accelearation on the drivers. How do I install these drivers and how do I enable full 3D open GL?

Is Open GL full 3D acceleration for Radeon 8500 cards supported in these drivers?

Alternatively if anyone has a Radeon 8500 card and uses the official ATI drivers, could they post an example of their Xfree86 configuration file, as I can only ever seem to get these drivers running at 65,000 colours 16 bit. I wonder if perhaps I am missing something?

I am using Mandrake 9.0

Q

UberLord · Jan 19, 2003, 11:33 AM

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Originally posted by raid517

Alternatively if anyone has a Radeon 8500 card and uses the official ATI drivers, could they post an example of their Xfree86 configuration file, as I can only ever seem to get these drivers running at 65,000 colours 16 bit. I wonder if perhaps I am missing something?

Can you get them running in 24-bit colour? Remember that ATI don't support 32-bit colour in Linux. But neither does Matrox so I guess thats a XFree86 thing.

My 9700 works with 24-bit colour. I can't post the config as my Linux partition is hosed.

Forge · Mar 22, 2003, 11:20 PM

Xfree 4.3.0 and the ATI binary drivers are mutually exclusive, ATM. The Xfree86 DRI drivers should support 8500 just fine, though.

Do you have AGP support compiled into your kernel? The XFREE version of the DRM module, not the kernel one? What does /var/log/XFree86.0.log say? I don't have enough info to help you.

Jan 19, 2003, 10:42 AM	#1
raid517 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,518 Rep Power: 0	Help Radeon 8500 Wont work! Hi I wonder if anyone can help me, I installed the latest Xfree version from from Mandrake 9.0 v 4.3 (after satisfying a load of dependancies) and I downloaded the newst kernel and the latest drivers for my ATI video card from the DRI project. I got as far as the bit about installing the lastest X free version, installing the new Kernel and the new kernel source, but when it comes to getting my card to work to give good 3D I get a bit lost. There are no real installationl instructions for the DRI radeon drivers, and no indication, if one can get them to install how to get 3D working properly. This function has always been missing from my card ever since I bought it, which is why I gave up on Linux a couple of times, as I like my hardware to be supported. I also want to play some games in Linux. Open GL apprears to be working but there is no accelearation on the drivers. How do I install these drivers and how do I enable full 3D open GL? Is Open GL full 3D acceleration for Radeon 8500 cards supported in these drivers? Alternatively if anyone has a Radeon 8500 card and uses the official ATI drivers, could they post an example of their Xfree86 configuration file, as I can only ever seem to get these drivers running at 65,000 colours 16 bit. I wonder if perhaps I am missing something? I am using Mandrake 9.0 Q

Mar 22, 2003, 11:20 PM	#3
Forge DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2002 Location: King of Prussia, PA, USA Posts: 107 Rep Power: 0	Xfree 4.3.0 and the ATI binary drivers are mutually exclusive, ATM. The Xfree86 DRI drivers should support 8500 just fine, though. Do you have AGP support compiled into your kernel? The XFREE version of the DRM module, not the kernel one? What does /var/log/XFree86.0.log say? I don't have enough info to help you. __________________ [COLOR=lightgreen] Vargr64[/COLOR]: Core 2 Q9450@3.2 [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] OCZ Dominator [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] 4GB G.Skill 800MHz [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] eVGA GeForce 9800GT [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Raptor150+Seag750+Seag640+Seag320+Seag320 [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Liteon LH-20A1H [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Liteon LH-20A1S [COLOR=Red]\|[/COLOR] TT Armor+ [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Corsair TX750W [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Gigabyte EP35-DS4 [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Logitech Z-680 [COLOR=Red]\|[/COLOR] Vista64 Ultimate SP1 [COLOR=Red]\|[/COLOR] Ubuntu 8.10 x64