[vox-tech] Can't get RedHat Enterprise AS to Install

[Bill Broadley]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:18:38PM -0800, Jim Lowman wrote:
> I suspect that the 9800 is the problem, since the archives show that 
> usually the bleeding-edge graphics
> cards aren't supported by Linux.  Everything is fine in Win2000, but the 

Er, bleeding edge video cards with propietary drivers are supported by
the vendor, not linux.  Did you try the ATI driver?  It's listes as support
the 9800 series and supports xfree86 4.1.0, 4.2.0, and 4.4.0

> Linux install barely gets off the
> ground before I get a black screen.
> 
> Before the upgrades, I had RH9 installed and dual-booted with Win2000; 
> then I had an nVIDIA GeForce2
> MX 200 video card which worked fine, but had no DVI-out for the new display.

The nvidia drivers have been pretty good at supporting the newest cards.

> I'm going to drop the old video card back in and give it a try.  Also I 
> bought another graphics card that uses
> the nVIDIA 5200 - it even says that it supports Linux on the box.

Or just install without video and fix it after install.

> Any idea how long it takes before video cards like the 9800 XT Pro get 
> supported?  I bought that for the
> "dream machine" that I'm building.

>From what I can tell today.  Anyone know if xfree86-4.4 support for the 9800
includes full 2d and 3d acceleration?

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Bill Broadley
Computational Science and Engineering
UC Davis