ati mobility radeon 9600/9700 in rhel 3 ws update 9

linuxquestion · 12-15-2009, 12:38 AM

i did not find any proper driver for ati mobility radeon 9600/9700 agp series, anyone does?

adamk75 · 12-15-2009, 04:02 AM

That particular video card is supported by the open source radeon drivers. I'm not familiar with RHEL, but every up-to-date distribution I know of ships with those drivers and will enable them by default for that video card.

Is there some reason you think you need to install a "proper driver" for that GPU?

Adam

linuxquestion · 12-15-2009, 06:51 PM

i've tried to install for win xp (i'm using dual boot) and it is working properly. Wheter i installed in linux env, it seem the rendering did not work, especially for 3d.
i've tried to install another driver from open source, there was some error. My kernel did not match.
env : rhel 3 ws update 9. kernel 2.4, 32 bit. thanks anyway.

adamk75 · 12-15-2009, 07:21 PM

As I said, I'm not very familiar with RHEL. However, according to wikipedia RHEL3 was initially released in October of 2003, over 6 years ago. RHEL 3, update 9, is 2.5 years old. If you want to play with 3D acceleration, I *highly* recommend using an up-to-date distribution. To be honest, I would consider it a considerable waste of time to try and get 3D acceleration working with a distribution that old.

Adam

linuxquestion · 12-17-2009, 01:02 AM

i've successfull installed in kernel 2.6, my previous kernel is 2.4. the driver need 2.6 or higher kernel. thanks anyway.