General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Tue Jul 1 19:24:48 EDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:47 -0400, David W. Aquilina wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:19:24PM -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
> > I just got an ATI/AMD Radeon X1650 Pro video card to try to replace the
> > onboard video on a Dell Optiplex 745 running Scientific Linux 5.1.
> 
> I'm not sure how closely SL follows CentOS/RHEL, but RHEL 5.2 introduced
> the 'radeon_tp' driver ("tech preview") with experimental support for
> the R500/R600-based cards.

SL follows pretty closely for the base packages, would be surprised if
SL5.2 didn't also have that driver.

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Jarod Wilson
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