From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:01:52 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Ani Joshi Cc: Stefan Jeglinski , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: ATI 7000 and dual-monitor X? (was Re: 9600 maturity?) Message-ID: <20020416100152.A4692@suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from ajoshi@shell.unixbox.com on Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:27:00PM -0700 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Mon, Apr 15, Ani Joshi wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Stefan Jeglinski wrote: > > > http://www.ati.com/shopati/promotions/maccombo/index.html > > > > Seems like the 7000 would be a nice addition to spruce up my old > > 9500/G3 workhorse. It would free up 2 slots as I now have a Twin > > Turbo, an ixTV, and an old Matrox card in there now. > > > > 1. Is the Radeon 7000 supported in XFree86? Rather, the real question > > is, does anyone know of any gotchas trying to run it in accelerated > > mode? > > ATI tends to make new cards which are really just newer revisions of older > ASICs. For example, the Radeon 7200 is realy just a regular radeon with > 64meg DDR (and perhaps higher clocks). So its highly possible that the > 7000 is a radeon VE (considering its dualhead). If so, then it is > supported. Even if it isn't, adding support should be very trivial as it > contains the same 1st generation Radeon ASIC. It is a VE, but I have one report where it fails on a 9600, after loading vgahw.a or something like that. Maybe it must go into another slot or the guy has to boot without video=ofonly. More details later.. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented... ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/