hello world,
does anyone know how to install ati drivers for the ati radeon x1200 chipset? i searched everywhere but i could not find a link to a repository for this chipset
wrt some practical graphic card theory on openSUSE note this post: openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users
ie the X1200 is considered legacy by ATI and no longer supported in MS-Windows nor Linux.
Please excuse my addition but just in case this easy slip of the pen sells ivandeterrible an unnecessary dummy, linux DOES still seem to support the X1200 in the form of the open source radeon (legacy) driver, e.g. the Supported Hardware section output from the “man radeon” command lists the following:
[INDENT]RS600/RS690/RS740[/INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Radeon X1200/X1250/X2100[/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT]
Terry.
Indeed that is a good point to make. While ATI no longer provide proprietary graphic drivers for the X1200, there are graphic drivers for this hardware in Linux (and hence in openSUSE). Likely you will find the FBDEV graphic driver, the VESA graphic driver, and also the “radeon” open source graphic driver (as pointed out by Bloggs_J) will work with the X1200. The “radeon” driver will provide the best performance.
There is active work going on with the radeon driver, and we need users with cards such as the X1200 to keep trying the radeon driver, and reporting on its behaviour, so that hopefully its support can be maintained as that hardware gets older with time.
Unfortunately the Radeon driver is very basic, performance wise you will stuck for anything other than 2D or basic 3D. Compiz works, but is again not great on performance. Games using polygons generally don’t work properly, geometry is all overth eplace and even some games that used to work like TUX racer have problems with The Radeon driver.
I have a laptop with radeon x1270, and have struggled with this since it effects othe rproducts other than games.
I’d really like to see some sort of request from SuSE to AMD to release this now unsupported driver code, to speed up development of Radeon.
Actually, I’d like to see something akin to DIRECTX for Linux, games are a huge force for sales & development, Linux is pretty poor on the gaming front, Wine Helps, but Wine is helped by having good linux drivers to start with.
Anyway, I digress - Radeon driver is best bet, and I’m sure it will improve over time!
well currently under sysinfo:/ it shows that i am running “radeon” for 2D, “swrast” for 3D, but 3D is not enabled…is there any way i can change it so that both of them are running the radeon driver?
What happens if you try booting with radeon.modeset=1 as a kernel parameter? I don’t have a clue whether this will actually force the radeon driver to be used for 3D as well, but if no-none else has a better idea it is worth a try since it is easy to try.
KMS is a real pain when it does something you don’t want it to. Why does it decide to do it? Documentation anybody?
If radeon.modeset=1 doesn’t work, it might even be worth trying the nomodeset kernel parameter (just to see what happens if nothing else).
Allow for kernel bugs: If you Google “linux +swrast” you will pick up several linux bug discussions which have some things in common this thread.
Terry.
Hi,
The radeon driver supports the RS600/RS690/RS740 Radeon X1200/X1250/X2100 cards.
The radeonhd driver supports RS690 Radeon X1200, X1250, X1270 cards.
To check which chip set your card has run the lspci cmd (root privileges needed).
If you need the radeonhd driver then xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd has to be installed.