(-20 on RH 8 downloaded, will test tonight! WAS:RE: [Dri-users] Radeon 8500: The Reason for the woes....

[Christopher L. E. <pgh...@co...>]

-----Original Message-----
Greetings, I am new.

I have roughly the same configuration.  Asus K7S5A motherboard, Athlon
XP 1800+, 512MB Ram.  I installed the 9-20-2002 build posted earlier and
it works.  first time I've played Q3 on this card in linux where the
performance was bearable or the machine didn't lock up.  This is also
under RH8.0 fresh install this morning.  The latest build did not work -
but I expected that as the archived messages reported that it was
broken.  The current build gave an error regarding the GL libraries but
completed the install.  Then the when running startx the monitor became
inactive, but I could still input commands on a console.  Upon
rebooting, the system disabled X and I could then run the ./install
restore option on the build giving me GUI back.

Anyway, the file posted for 9-20 seems to rock.  Hope the rest of the
gremlins are easy fixes.

Steve W.

I've downloaded a copy of this build (some kind soul hosted it and
posted a link on the list) and will test it against my own RH 8 tonight.

I've also sent a copy of this to the list.

I'll do the same with my response post-testing.


Christopher L. Estep