From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:27:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Ani Joshi To: Stefan Jeglinski Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: ATI 7000 and dual-monitor X? (was Re: 9600 maturity?) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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. > 2. What about the included USB TV - any hope for that working in X? No idea on that one. > 3. What is the status of dual monitors in XFree86? Last I remember, > it could be made to work but only with fbdev - that running dual > accelerated monitors was not really working. Dualhead (accelerated) should work fine. ani ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/