Any body mess with Linux and DRI driver for ATI Radeon below 9200s?

[Lord Banshee]

Just wondering if anyone can help me out.

Trying to fellow these direction
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Buildin...5ec850c11d78bac10f6bfa31b69a37f1b257c9

for my Radeon 7500 on Linux Fedora Core 3.

But when i type in the first thing
"cvs -dserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg login"

And hit enter at the password promt like the direction states it just does nothing. Does not get me back to the promt line, just return the character key to the next line.

any help for a newbie in linux?

 

[n0cmonkey]

How long did you wait? I kind of remember having to wait a bit for some cvs servers to free me up.

 

[Nothinman]

It returned after a second for me right now, but it could have been anything from busy server to network congestion when you tried it.

And no offense, but building all of X.org for your card seems like a huge waste and probably won't go too well if you don't already know what you're doing. There has to be a precompiled package for whatever driver you're looking for.

 

[Lord Banshee]

No offense taken, Do you have any places i would look for such a precompiled driver?

 

[Nothinman]

Not really, I buy nVidia cards because their drivers work well =)

 

[P0ldy]

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html

Debian.

It's good to try out a lot of distros as a newb.

 

[drag]

Why are you trying to compile drivers? That card should have dri support by default for any distro that I know of.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: P0ldy
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html

Debian.

It's good to try out a lot of distros as a newb.

His card isn't listed on that page. Plus you don't need that for 9200 and older cards.

 

[P0ldy]

Guess I missed that. The title says below 9200s.

 

[calyco]

Originally posted by: drag
Why are you trying to compile drivers? That card should have dri support by default for any distro that I know of.

Yep, save yourself the headache and lose Fedora if it isnt. Sorry cant help ya with Fedora but FWIW I got the card working under Ubuntu and FreeBSD, this specific card seems to be a PITA for alot of people.

The DRI driver is installed by default on Ubuntu Hoary and you just need to add a couple of lines to your xorg.conf to enable 3D acceleration.

Under Section "Module" add:
Load "radeon"
Load "xtrap"
Load "drm"

and under Section "Device" add:
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "true"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "backingstore" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"

I played around with the settings and this is optimal for me.

 

[phisrow]

Aren't 9200s and below supported right out of the (usually metaphorical) box with any modern release of Xorg? My impression was that the default radeon driver would Just Work in such instances.

 

[Lord Banshee]

they thanks guys,

deviant03, what kind of GUI does FreeBSD have? i am a GUI guy lol... I like Gnome and KDE? does either come with FreeBSD?

 

[Nothinman]

FreeBSD comes with the same software you can find in any Linux distribution, you'll have to setup X on either of them.