Trouble installing Radeon 8500 in linux.

[Hanpan]

ANyone know of a good tutorial on how to make the Radeon 8500 play nicely with x?

 

[spamsk8r]

which distro? And what kinds of problems are you having (2D, 3D, etc.)?

 

[Hanpan]

Slack. I cannot even get x to recognize the card. It works fine for cl. It is x that I have the problem with...

 

[cleverhandle]

Have you downloaded their drivers and followed the install section about generating a custom kernel module? Admittedly, it will be a pain to deal with the rpm, but rpm is included on the Slackware disk, and I think that rpm2tgz should be able to convert the file well enough. Once you get the files into the right places, the compiling part looks pretty straightforward.