[ltp] Re: Xorg, DRI etc

[Alex Deucher]

On 6/8/06, Nate <nrs27@cornell.edu> wrote:
>
> > Nate,
> >
> > did you get a usefull answer on your question? I asked myself,
> > if the native Radeon X300 support is functional with Fedora Core 5.
> > Do you know about this? I assume, your gfx chip is a radeon 9000?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Matthias
> >
> >
> Alex's response did help me to get MergedFB DRI mode working.
>
> I do have the radeon 9000. I am not sure, but isn't it the R250? I am

9000, m9 are rv250
9200, m9+ are rv280
really the only difference is AGP 8x support and a few on chip bug fixes.

> almost certain there is support for R300 out of the box in FC5. The
> radeon man page lists
> RS300       Radeon 9100 IGP
> RS350       Radeon 9200 IGP

Those IGP chips are based on the r200 (maybe even r100) 3D core
despite the "300" in their name.

Alex

> as being supported. FC5 installs by default using the open source
> drivers. It's the Fedora philosophy to use only open source software, so
> consider that before jumping on board.
>