iBook G4 Radeon 9200

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Tue Mar 2 11:36:01 2004


Dan,

I have got it working.
YDL sent me a new kernel which supports the 9200 in 2d mode.
I am working to get a new xfree86 which will do 3d.

I will send you more info later.

cheers,  Rene Norbert

Citeren Dan Fontenot <dfontenot@mac.com>:

> I have looked back through the last several months of archives and 
> don't see a discussion of this particular issue.
> 
> I have an iBook G4, 1Ghz which has the Radeon 9200 video card. YDL's 
> site says this is still an untested/unsupported card. I have install 
> YDL 3.0.1 and can get the screen to come up in 8 bit depth (so very 
> ugly) but it obviously needs a proper driver.
> 
> Does anyone know where such a driver can be found (ATI's site has Linux 
> drivers for i386 machines, but not PowerPC)? Also, I am still new at 
> this so would need some direction on installing this driver (if one 
> exists) and reconfiguring my system.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> dfontenot@mac.com
> 
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