[ltp] ATI driver

[Osho GG]

Actually the 6.8.1 X.org release has 3d accelerated drivers for 7xxx
radeons (I am no sure about XFree86 4.3/4.4). You may want to try
upgrading to X.org 6.8.1.

Osho

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:01:23 -0400, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:27:58 +0200, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 00:55:28 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:35:29 -0400, Paul Kaplan <pkaplan1@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > I've been using Mandrake 10 w/ X4.3 on both a TPT40 and R40.  Both have a
> > > > Radeon 7500 video card.  Seems to work fine for me.  glxgears reports >175fps
> > > > in both cases.
> > >
> > > Make sure direct rendering is enabled.  it soulds like it isn't.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know whether there is any advantage to installing the new ATI
> > > > proprietary driver:
> > > > http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linux&prodTy
> > > > ?
> > > >
> > > > What will it give me?
> > >
> > > nothing.  ati's driver only supports r200 chips and above.  the 7500
> > > is an r100 varient.
> >
> > According to <http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ATIRadeon>,
> > the 7500 is a r200 variant.
> 
> it's called rv200, but it's really a tweaked r100 core.  trust me.
> 
> >
> > IIRC the fglrx driver supports everything which is newer than the
> > Radeon M6, which is used in my A30.
> 
> the fglrx driver only supports the 8500 and up (r200, rv250, rv280,
> r300, rv350, r400, etc.). It does not support any of the r100 cores
> (r100, rv100, rv200). All 7xxx radeons are r100 based and are only
> supported by the opensource radeon driver.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tino
> >
> >
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