x86_64 and Radeon 9600

[Mike Larkin]

On the eMachines M6805 notebook, which uses a Radeon 9600 Mobility, 
compiling XFree86 4.3.99.902 or later results in a working Radeon 
driver. You might try the same approach for the desktop card and see 
what happens.

-ml

Jason Reicheneker wrote:

> My other box has a Rage Fury, which was recognized as r128.
>
> The 9600 SE is not recognized by FC1 32-bit or 64-bit.  
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114233 Looks like 
> I'll have to use vesa for now.
>
> In case anyone is interested, there was a nice write-up on ATI card 
> support over on the xfree86 users list:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/xfree86-list/2003-October/msg00039.html
>
> Thanks for everyone's help!
>
> Gene C. wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 07 February 2004 13:33, Jason Reicheneker wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I tried to set it to radeon but it froze on the startup splash screen
>>> before it loaded any of the modules.
>>>
>>> I couldn't find redhat-config-display.
>>>
>>> I have another Linux box that's hooked up to the same monitor, keyboard
>>> and mouse.  It has Fedora Core 1 32 bit and was able to recognize 
>>> them.  So I used the XF86Config from that machine and changed the 
>>> video driver
>>> to vesa.
>>>
>>> How do I find the PCI ID and what do I put in the XF86Config file?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> OK, my experience is that there are (can be) a few problems 
>> configuring X on the x86_64 but if XFree86 and redhat-config-xfree86 
>> work with your monitor and video adapter on 32 bit FC1, then you 
>> should be able to use the same XF86Config file and the same driver.
>>
>> On my Opteron 140 system, the adapter is an ATI 9100SE but it was 
>> unrecognized by the installer or by redhat-config-xfree86.  In my 
>> case, I "guessed" that specifying a "plain" ATI 9100 would work and 
>> it did.  After bootup, I check /var/log/XFree86.0.log and found that 
>> XFree86 had recognized the adapter and worked fine.
>>
>> Again, if you install the 32 bit FC1 on the system and it all works 
>> fine, then you should be able to use the same config file.
>>
>> I am not an XFree86 "expert" and you may be able to get better 
>> answers by posting something on the xfree86-list at redhat.com mailing 
>> list.
>>  
>>
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