Radeon 7000

[Marc Stergionis]

Sometime around 10:33 AM +0100 on 11/9/02, Loek pounded out this ditty:
>I never installed an other gfx card that a standard one
>I will have to take a shot at it sooner or later, since i ordered a radeon
>7000 myself
>
>i saw that linux driver can be found on this link:
>http://www.ati.com/support/faq/linux.html?cboOS=LinuxXFree86&cboProducts=RAD
>EON+7000&eula=&choice=agree&cmdNext=Next
>
>maybe you can also visit www.atitech.com or www.ati.com
>
>If you get it to work, please let me know what you've done.
>That'll save me a truck load of work (i am a linuxnewbie)

Here's what I did  and wrote, this info might've been sent off-list 
to Jim though.

-ms

  Don't know if you've heard back on this but here's what I did on
>  my 8600/G4:
>
>  Opened the box and moved the R7000 to PCI slot 1 (a how-to said  it
>  had to be in that slot for *G4s*, so just wanted to make sure).
>
>  Installed with "no video driver checked" (because this box, of
>  course, has an  8600 ROM,  I have to use BootX).
>
>  First try was *very* weird video. Literally my install desktop was
>  confined to the left half of the screen and the background was pink
>  instead of blue, with the gui colors similarly skewed. Decided to use
>  text install instead and that looked and worked right.
>
>  Finished, configured the install. I  asked for Magnavox 17" (I have
>  an *old* MagnaScan 17  monitor but, of course, that's probably not
>  the model they meant) 1024x768, 24 bit. Rebooted. Of course that
>  didn't work.
>
>  Restarted a few times with "no video" sometimes checked, sometimes
>  not. Same old.
>
>  Rebooted and, as root, ran the command "xconfigurator" which, of
>  course, gets you back to video setup prompts. Tried quite a few
>  variations before proceeding to "startx," most of which produced that
>  skewed color. Sometimes, I'd  get boot messages going by, then a gray
>  screen with lots of drive access before hearing that nifty KDE
>  percussion intro, ie. got  to  KDE desktop.  But no video.
>
>  Of course, the solution was to boot, run  Xconfigurator, then select
>  "fail safe" for video. Looks awesome.
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