(Powered By) ATI Radeon 7500 AGP

Mydchip · 12-27-2002, 09:53 PM

I have a Gigabyte AR64S-H Radeon 7500 Pro with 64mb sdram onboard, Installed in my system.
I can't get it to work with linux. I've tried Red hat 6.2, 7.3, 8.0 and Mandrake 9.0. but with no luck.
The best I've been able to achieve is 256 color on Red hat 8.0(using the Unsupported generic VGA driver) but that is absolutely useless as the viewing area is to large and the panel takes up a third of the screen by itself so I am unable to navigate my way around the system.
Is anyone out there using this card or similar on linux or can anyone help me get this card working please??

yngwin · 12-27-2002, 09:59 PM

ATI has linux drivers, try at their website.

Mydchip · 12-27-2002, 11:01 PM

The driver refers to the 8500 or higher.
Apparently the 7500 isn't supported.

Unless you are seeing something I'm not.

chrismiceli · 12-28-2002, 12:15 AM

try the gatoo drivers, i think they are called, they come w/ redhat called radeon i think.

Mydchip · 12-28-2002, 05:50 AM

Do you know which disk they are on (for RedHat 8.0) as I have only downloaded the first two ISO's which were required to install the OS.
There are about five or six all up but I don't want to download them all.

nikolad · 01-27-2003, 02:49 PM

I have the same problem. I am using mandrake 9.0 and i have the same graphic adapter (ar64s-h). When i select 'radeon' from the list, after testing, my screen turn off. I selected 'VESA' from the list, and it works fine. But I can't set refresh rate, so it is 60Hz which is bad. Any ideas?

Bye

djnet · 02-06-2003, 07:37 AM

I have a radeon 7000 and i dont't yet work with the radeon and ati xfree drivers.

I managed to use the vesa driver (very better then vga one)
I cannot switch resolution while x server is running, but i get a usable screen.

next step is to get the radeon driver working ...

good luck

nightfly80 · 02-08-2003, 04:21 AM

1) Make sure the agpgart & radeon module is already loaded or compiled statically into the kernel:

Quote:

[root@boone pete]# lsmod | head
Module Size Used by Not tainted
sr_mod 15096 0 (autoclean) (unused)
binfmt_misc 5696 1
radeon 82872 0 (unused)
agpgart 31840 1
-------- SNIPPED! -----------

2) In XFree Config under "Module" set these values:

Quote:

Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
Subsection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubsection
EndSection

3) In XFree Config under "Device" set these values:

Quote:

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "ATI Radeon"
Driver "radeon"
Option "noaccel"
Option "AGPMode" "true"
EndSection

This should let you use the Radeon 7500 in 2D with the standard driver.

How to get the card use hardware acceleration I don't know yet.
I'll keep you updated.

nikolad · 02-10-2003, 08:02 PM

Can you write more details about this, because I am beginner with linux and I don't know where to find those config files and where to enter those values mentioned.

Thanks

Nikola

pyropenguin · 02-10-2003, 09:07 PM

i have a radeon 7500 and i run redhat 8 and it automatically detected mine and i never had to download anything, is it possible the problem isnt the graphics card? i also am almost sure that ati dosent offer linux drivers becauce i recently looked for them, hoping i could play UT2003 in redhat so i didnt have to boot to windows

nakkaya · 02-10-2003, 09:52 PM

you shoud find a file called XF86Config or XF86Config-4 if you have if you have both thats fine too because xf86 will check XF86Config-4 first if you have this it is not going to check the other but redhat has just XF86Config file they are found in /etc/X1/ folder you can open them in any txt editor xedit gedit etc etc