ATI Radeon 9700 Pro DRM/DRI?

[Josh Tolbert]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 05:57:07PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Eric Anholt wrote:
> >On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 17:27, Doug Barton wrote:
> >
> >>Eric Anholt wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 06:31, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I recently built a kernel with the radeon DRM driver but it didn't 
> >>>>work.  I
> >>>>noticed a comment that it only supports up to the ATI Radeon 9000/9100. 
> >>>>Are
> >>>>there any plans in the works to support later model cards?  If so, what
> >>>>needs to be done to finish this (and test it)?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>There is no open-source support for 3d on r300+ cards, which includes
> >>>everything above the 9500.
> >>
> >>So the 9500 works, but everything after that is not supported? Is that 
> >>true with XFree 4.4 as well?
> >
> >
> >No, that was supposed to be "everything 9500 and above."  Sorry.
> 
> Argh. So, what's the last ATI card that has open-source 3d support? I'm 
> going to be looking for a new system soon, and it sounds like nvidia is 
> going to be my only option.
> 
> Doug

Hi Doug,

I have an ATI Radeon 9100 (128M DDR AGP) card working with DRI. About the
latest you'll find support for are the warmed-over 8500-core cards (basically
everything up to 9200).

Thanks,
Josh
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