[CentOS] ATI X300 on CentOS 4

Thu Mar 16 00:14:31 UTC 2006
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 10:00:23AM -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
>> Quoting Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>:
>>> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:58:55PM -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
>>>> I'm running X300 on one of my boxes, and it seems that my particular
>>>> card runs OK.  I don't think it's original ATI card, just uses the ATI
>>>> chipset.  Of course, there's no 3D acceleration (just 2D).
>>> What really counts is the chipset.
>>>
>>> So, either you are running using the vesa driver, or you are damn
>>> lucky.
>> I guess I'm just damn lucky then.
>>
>> From lspci:
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>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 
>> [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
>>
>> From xorg.conf:
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>> Section "Device"
>>        Identifier  "Videocard0"
>>        Driver      "radeon"
>>        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>>        BoardName   "ATI Radeon X300"
>> EndSection
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> Are you sure that is a 4.2 box ?
> 

iirc, its just dri that causes issues, disabling dri and using the 
radeon driver directly seems to keep the system usable.


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