Sapphire X1950 Pro (ATI 0x7280 Chipset) solved

[kg4ojl]

Does anyone know a way to get this card to work with opengl? I currently am using the testing ver. of ati drivers (ati-drivers ebuild) ati web site doesn't currently support my card in linux, so to get it to sort of work in gentoo, I had to add the ChipID 0x7240 in my xorg.conf. When I do an eselect opengl set ati it uses something called mesa. I have tryed the xorg ati drivers also, but it doesn't work eather. I may just have to wait on ati to come up with a driver for the x1950. I was just wondering if there was anything one else in this same boat, or if there were any other options for my in the meantime?

Thank you.
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Intel DP35DP MB, 2 Gig DDR2, 1TB Sata HD's In Raid5 Config.(Highpoint rocketraid 2300). Processor:quad Core 2.4 Ghz 4 meg. Cache Mem. Sapphire X1950 Pro (Ati) 256 Meg. Pci Express Video Card.
Running Gentoo Stable, using Gentoo-sources

[PaV]

well, I have Asus x1950pro and had no luck with xorg yet... could you post your xorg.conf, since adding that ChipID to my Device section helped, but not much. thanks!

[kg4ojl]

You still need to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -av ati-drivers to get the latest that's in portage, or add it to your /etc/portage/package.keywords, and then do your aticonfig --intial and aticonfig --resolution command. then add the ChipID line in xorg.conf , but here is my xorg.conf file. the thing is alittle buggy though. Not at all in 2d (unless you playing alot of media on xine or something like that) but at least you can use the card. Now if we could just get the opengl to work right. here ya go:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"

### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
#Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vesa"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
BusID "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
ChipID 0x7240
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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Intel DP35DP MB, 2 Gig DDR2, 1TB Sata HD's In Raid5 Config.(Highpoint rocketraid 2300). Processor:quad Core 2.4 Ghz 4 meg. Cache Mem. Sapphire X1950 Pro (Ati) 256 Meg. Pci Express Video Card.
Running Gentoo Stable, using Gentoo-sources

[kg4ojl]

We may just have to wait for ATI to come out with drivers for this card. I just thought I would see if there was a way to get it to work untill then. I kinda miss playing Neverwinter nights on linux. Oh well, as bad as i hate to say it, there's always windows. Not being able to play video at good speeds is bad too.
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Intel DP35DP MB, 2 Gig DDR2, 1TB Sata HD's In Raid5 Config.(Highpoint rocketraid 2300). Processor:quad Core 2.4 Ghz 4 meg. Cache Mem. Sapphire X1950 Pro (Ati) 256 Meg. Pci Express Video Card.
Running Gentoo Stable, using Gentoo-sources

[ajibarra]

Hi, i have bought an ati x1950 xtx and i want to know about support on gentoo because i visit ati website and i cant find a driver for linux.

Thanks
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Asus P5W DH Deluxe, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz 4MB Cache, 2 x 1GB 667MHz Dual Channel RAM, ATI Radeon x1950 XTX 512MB GDDR4, 2 x Western Digital SATA 250GB.

[kg4ojl]

The newest Ati drivers took care of the problem. Kinda of. I have ati opengl support, and direct rendering now, and the driver knows my chipset (0x7280) but I get horz. lines flash or the screen every now and then. and vmware workstation 5.5 doesn't work, but that maybe because I had framebuffering in the kernel. I will try it without fb tonight. Other than that, the new driver (off ati's website) seems to work good. Now if we could just get it in portage. lol.

Thanks for the help.
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Intel DP35DP MB, 2 Gig DDR2, 1TB Sata HD's In Raid5 Config.(Highpoint rocketraid 2300). Processor:quad Core 2.4 Ghz 4 meg. Cache Mem. Sapphire X1950 Pro (Ati) 256 Meg. Pci Express Video Card.
Running Gentoo Stable, using Gentoo-sources

[mbar]

I think there is unofficial 8.32.5 ebuild on bugzilla. I'm going to struggle with my 1950Pro again during the upcoming weekend.