Hello All,

I own an IBM IntelliStation Z Pro 6221-W11 and wish to replace the video card on it. The motherboard supports AGP 8X cards. Initially, I wanted to purchase an NVIDIA GeForce 8600 because of it's support for the CUDA C extensions, but alas, NVIDIA has not made an AGP compatible GeForce 8 card yet and it doesn't look like they are ever going to.

As a result, I am looking to replace my Wildcat4 7110 with a VisionTek Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card. I've read in multiple reviews that ATI's drivers are not compatible with this card. Are these claims correct? If so, the fact that VisionTek doesn't support Linux might be a big problem.

The reason I can't select another manufacturer is that few support AGP. A search of the forums did mention the mobility HD 2000 series, but the one I'm choosing would be a full desktop version.

Thank you!

ATI has new drivers that work the the HD 2xxxx cards. People seem to have luck with them. I have tried 8.42.3 drivers (which extend support to x700+? and x1xxx cards) with my x1650, but glxgears and xine, vlc, etc. all display black screens and no video.

I've got the ATI Radeon HD2600 in my ASUS laptop and found suse drivers for it. I can't say that they work great because unfortunately I can't get them to install. I've tried to chmod =x the file but it says that I don't have permission to run the file even as root. maybe you can have better luck with the file by going to http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/l...64-radeon.html

Give it a try and see what you get.

Dave

As root try sh ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run That should get it working.

Alternatively try chmod 755 ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run and then ./ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run

Greetings,

Many thanks for the updates. Sorry for not posting this earlier but I figured out that since I'd dual booted the computer with vista I'd downloaded the file under my windows distribution apparently I didn't have permissions under root with chmod to modify the file. Once I re-downloaded the driver with my linux user profile I could just go into the file properties via the GUI and was able to install the file.

Unfortunately this still did not resolve the issue. It installed catalyst, but still didn't allow my 1440x900 resolution nor did it resolve the 3-D driver solution.

At this point I've abandoned SuSE and have since installed Ubuntu 7.10

Evidently the new 8.4 version doesn't like my hardware as even the live disk will not load on my system.

Many thanks for your assistance.

You might wish to try Fedora Core 6 I've had the most luck with that beautiful distribution.

You'll need to modify your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and add the following: (omitting what is already there)

Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "GLcore"
Load "glx" #hopefully Ubuntu includes mesa-lib...
EndSection

Locate the device using a vesa driver and add what isn't already there. Section and Identifier should already be in there, don't modify them if they are.

Section "Device"
Identifier "VideoCardX"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "Radeon HD 2600"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "UseFastTLS" "on"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
EndSection

If X doesn't start, comment out the changes, or better yet, copy xorg.conf to a backup file before editing it. xorg.conf.bak should do.

Did it work for you?