amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

[alive]

Thanks.
Do you by any chance have a link to supported cards?
Do you know if this driver supports Composite? OpenGL?

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:32:06 +0100, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 06:29:51PM +0100, alive wrote:
>> > Any ATI card up to and including the 9250 (rv280) is fully supported
> on
>> > amd64, 3D and all. (I know because I've got one :-)
> 
>> Oh, is that so? Could you please tell me how you got it to work? Because
>> I've got GREAT issues getting *ANY* ATI card to work with at least
>> Composite on FreeBSD and/or Linux. And I've even got i386. Or has
> something
>> happened since I last cried myself to sleep over this driverless hell?
> 
> - Add the device radeondrm to you kernel config and recompile, or load
>   the radeon.ko kernel module.
> - Install the xf86-video-ati driver (this is xorg 7.3!)
> - Load the right modules in xorg.conf;
> Section "Module"
>         Load    "dri"
>         Load    "glx"
>         Load    "dbe"
>         Load    "extmod"
>         Load    "freetype"
>         Load    "type1"
> EndSection
> - Use the radeon driver in xorg.conf:
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "Card0"
>         Driver          "radeon"
> #        Option          "AGPMode"               "8"
> #        Option          "DDCMode"               "true"
> EndSection
> 
> That's about it, I think.
> 
> Roland
>
-- 
Sincerely,
Rada