[vox-tech] radeon 9700 pro problems

[Gabriel Rosa]

I have a 9700 Pro working with Debian unstable. I converted the .rpm to .deb
using alien and installed. then I used the firegl config app to generate a 
config file and it just fired right up. 

it does feel (no benchmarks) slower than my gf4 4400 (which I currently have
back in my machine), both 3d and 2d... but the ati's picture quality is nicer.

All in all, the ati drivers are pretty crappy.

-Gabe

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 10:16:41PM -0800, Ryan wrote:
> I'm currently running Red Hat 7.2 with the latest 'up2date' packages (latest
> kernel included). I can't get xwindows to start up and I'm running XFree86
> 4.1.0. The Radeon 9700 Pro isn't supported at the moment by XFree86 and I've
> been reading online about lots of people having problems, with no real luck. I
> have tried installing the driver from ATI's site but the rpm won't even run. I
> don't have any snippets of log files right now or anything super specific about
> errors because I dont have access to my computer right now. I did try tweaking
> the XFree86-4 config file and selecting generic VGA cards in Xconfigurator, but
> to no avail, it complained of memory issues on the card.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has the exact same card and if they got it to work in
> linux.
>