Radeon 8500 support?

[Markus Deistler]

Hi,

Rael333@aol.com wrote:

> I am brand spanking new to Linux -- about to install YDL 2.3, but I notic=
ed
> that the ATI Radeon 8500 agp graphics card for mac is not supported. Does
> that mean it's not not not supported? Or just that I have to go looking f=
or

I means that you will have to write a driver yourself or wait until some
volunteer has performed enough reverse engineering, guessing hardware specs
and writen a nice driver. Please go to http://www.xfree86.org and look for
docs and support status, there is plenty of stuff there. Probably your
ATI-card is already supported in X4.2.1 (YDL has X4.2.0) or is going to be
supported in the next X-Release (4.3).

Very recently released graphics cards aren't usually supported (yet) by X
unless the manufacturer *does* provide a driver for X and linux. Most
manufacturers of graphics cards develop drivers for Windoze and Mac, and
nothing else.

Markus



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