ATI Radeon support

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Mon Mar 19 15:38:28 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 00:26 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> I just bought a new Radeon X1300 and X fails to run on the radeon
> driver, and has to use vesa, although it *seems* to detect what type
> card it is.  Is this card supported or is using vesa the only way it's
> supported?

The names printed by anaconda are just from the PCI IDs list.  We're
quite capable of knowing what kind of card something is without having a
specialized driver for it.

vesa only for R500 cards, atm.  You should let AMD know how important
open source graphics support is to you.

- ajax




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