Radeon 9700 detection

**vanyar** · 04-06-2003, 08:32 PM

I've read that XFree86 4.3 has support for Radeon 9700 cards, but when I boot the Knoppix CD, it uses the VESA driver.
Is there any way to force the ati driver?

**aay** · 04-07-2003, 02:22 AM

If you check out the Docs section you'll see the following boot option: "xmodule=ati|fbdev|vesa|savage|s3" Have you tried "knoppix xmodule=ati" ? Let us know how it goes.

**Viro** · 04-07-2003, 03:10 PM

Actually, I think the best driver for the Radeon isn't ati, but rather 'radeon'. I suggest that you pass the parameter xmodule=radeon at the boot prompt.

But Radeon support in XFree86 4.3 isn't very good.

**vanyar** · 04-07-2003, 06:41 PM

I've tried that, but it fails to start and it falls back to fbdev.
I think that it's fbdev because with VESA driver I get 60Hz, but with that strange driver I get 68Hz.
With radeon drivers I get 85Hz as default in Mandrake 9.1 and with other distributions (such as debian) with the ati drivers for xfree86 4.2.1

**rickenbacherus** · 04-07-2003, 06:56 PM

Shouldn't it be like this:
xmodule=raedon

NOT
xmodule=radeon

Notice that the 'd' & 'e' are transposed. It would never work that way.

**Viro** · 04-07-2003, 07:30 PM

Originally Posted by rickenbacherus

Shouldn't it be like this:
xmodule=raedon

NOT
xmodule=radeon

Notice that the 'd' & 'e' are transposed. It would never work that way.

Huh? No. It should be radeon, not raedon.

**rickenbacherus** · 04-07-2003, 07:38 PM

Originally Posted by Viro

Huh? No. It should be radeon, not raedon.

And so it would appear that you are correct. It is apparently commonly misspelled in the forums. My bad.

**vanyar** · 04-07-2003, 07:40 PM

Maybe it will be, but card's name is Radeon, not Raedon.
It's strange to name a module different from card's name.

**Viro** · 04-07-2003, 07:57 PM

No sweat, simple mistake to make

.

In any case, I've removed my Radeon 9000 and I'm back to my old trusty GeForce2 MX400. Why? The ATI drivers in XFree86 4.3.0 are just too buggy at the moment. DRI causes my whole system to crash, and I've lost some precious work.

**vanyar** · 04-07-2003, 08:00 PM

I don't care about 3d acceleration. I'm not going to get it until kernel 2.6 is released because I have a KT400 chipset and a AGP8X card. But I NEED a good refresh rate in 2d to use it, and 60Hz isn't good refresh rate.