The regular XFree config tools/utilities are:
xf86cfg
xf86config
XFree86 -config
...don't ask me which is best or how they work.
What do you call the
latest drivers for my ATI video card from the DRI project. What file is it exactly?
IIANM the only thing left for the radeon 8500 @ DRI is an old pre-compatibility-break-with-XFree-4.2.1 snapshot,
http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots...x.i386.tar.bz2
...should be unsuitable for xf_4_2_99_3.
What you would require is a later snapshot but they're not posted anymore. It would update your drm kernel module to match the new driver.
The only thing I found that could be of some relevance is in the /extra folder:
http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots...2.99.2.tar.bz2
but I haven't checked the mailing list in a while and couldn't really tell what exactly it is and what it contains.
I had backed up a copy of an early december snapshot and that's how I re-enabled DRI with the XFree.4.2.99.
As far as installing them, you just
tar xjf /path/to/r200-<date>-linux.i386.tar.bz2 ...in any dir.
cd <any dir>/dripkg
./install.sh
...in console mode, of course.
For ATI's, see if you have something similar to this in your config file:
Code:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "ATI Radeon"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24
------ snip------------
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
...don't mind the device "ATI radeon", I wrote my own config file,
the important thing is that it matches the "Identifier" like so:
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Radeon"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
# Option "DPMS" "on"
EndSection
...and they should work only with XFree <= 4.2.1, so you may need to re-install X from your distro's cd if you didn't backup your old /usr/X11R6.