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Bague
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 Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject: RTFM Questions |
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Ok, I have a few questions that would usually get RTFM answers, so I am wondering where all the manuals are for a few things (I have really bad luck trying to find things in the manual).
1. Where can I find documentation on getting 3d acceleration with a radeon (7500) on a 2.6+ kernel?
2. Where can I find documentation for working with vixie-cron to schedule processes (if such exists).
3. Where can I find documentation on CUPS and related issues. |
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maxcow
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1, 2, 3: Google, of course!  |
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vitriol
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teknomage1
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1.) Funny story about the Radeon 7500...It's the last radeon produced before ATI started supporting linux. It lacks 3d accelleration on any kernel not just 2.6.
2.)man cron
3.)I think there's a unix printing HOWTO over at tldp.org |
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Bague
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Funny story about the Radeon 7500...It's the last radeon produced before ATI started supporting linux. It lacks 3d accelleration on any kernel not just 2.6. |
Yeah, I got it over 2 years ago and I only got it because I was desperately needing a card and didn't have much to spend, cost me ~50 bucks on pricewatch at the time. I do know there is a way to get it working though, because My mandrake supported it, and others say they got it to work. At least I will be building my new pc soon, so I can just turn this one into a server. |
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dgt84
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Bague wrote: | | Quote: | | Funny story about the Radeon 7500...It's the last radeon produced before ATI started supporting linux. It lacks 3d accelleration on any kernel not just 2.6. |
Yeah, I got it over 2 years ago and I only got it because I was desperately needing a card and didn't have much to spend, cost me ~50 bucks on pricewatch at the time. I do know there is a way to get it working though, because My mandrake supported it, and others say they got it to work. At least I will be building my new pc soon, so I can just turn this one into a server. |
You just need to enable DRI in the kernel and tell XFree86 to use it. My brother has a laptop with a 7500 or something in it, and I got it to work fine a while ago. We play Enemy Territory over the net and he say's it runs great, so trust me, 3d acceleration does work for your card.
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sapphirecat
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| teknomage1 wrote: | | 1.) Funny story about the Radeon 7500...It's the last radeon produced before ATI started supporting linux. It lacks 3d accelleration on any kernel not just 2.6. |
There are open-source drivers that support it.
| Code: | $ glxinfo | grep render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20020611 AGP 4x x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE TCL
$ /sbin/lspci | grep ATI
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] |
The OSS drivers don't work on newer Radeons (IIRC, >9000).
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