[Novalug] Re: ATI Radeon 9200 and 3D support, OpenSUSE 10.3

[Jay Hart]

This link:

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1757

pretty much says my card (ATI Radeon 9200 will do 3D, but its worthless in XGL.

I'm trying to confirm whether or not it worth it to use this card.

I'm going to assume that my card will work, if I can outcome the driver
dependency issues.

However, I just found a file /etc/X11 that lists nvidia and ATI cards. I think
my card is not supported, but how can I make absolute certain this is the
case, without knowing if newer driver versions would help me out.

Driver used in xorg.conf is "radeon ".

I've copied ATI section of xgl-hardware-list filem and show only those cards
which I think are my version. From this list, I don't see this card doing 3D.

##
## ATI cards supported by radeon driver
##
DRIVER   =
PACKAGES =
SETUP    = /etc/X11/xgl-intel-setup.sh
XGL_OPTS = -accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:pbuffer

# Supported ATI cards
G 1002:5961     # RV280 5961

# Unsupported-but-partially-working ATI cards

# Non-Xgl-compatible ATI cards

# Unrecognized ATI cards
U 1002:5c61     # ATI Technologies Inc:RV280 5c61 (this probably not my card)

##
## ATI cards
##
DRIVER   = fglrx
PACKAGES = x11-video-fglrx ati-fglrx-kmp
SETUP    = /etc/X11/xgl-fglrx-setup.sh
XGL_OPTS = -accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:pbuffer

# Supported ATI cards

# Unsupported-but-partially-working ATI cards

# Non-Xgl-compatible ATI cards
B 1002:5961     # RV280 [Radeon 9200]

# Unrecognized ATI cards

Jay

> Jay Hart wrote:
>> This is very detailed, I hope I don't leave something out. I have a ATI
>> radeon
>> 9200 AGP card. Using video driver "RV280 5961".
>>
>>
> Any reason your not using the open source radeon driver?  If memory
> serves me correctly, its either the radeon driver, or the fglrx driver
> from ATI.  I'd stay away from the fglrx if you don't need bleeding edge
> functionality, which the 9200 probably doesn't support anyway.
>
> More info: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon
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