how to configure a radeon firegl 3400

[Roland Scheidegger]

Garrett Mitchener wrote:
> Hi, I just got a dell precision 690 workstation (x86_64 architecture),
> and I finally managed to get X to work using a plain vesa driver.  I
> would very much like to get an accelerated driver working.
> 
> I'm trying out fedora core 6 test 3, which comes with X 7.1.  The
> proprietary ATI drivers don't work with 7.1.  I've tried using the
> "ati" and "radeon" drivers with no luck:
> 
> from /etc/xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "Device"
>        Identifier  "Radeon0"
>        Driver      "radeon"
>        VendorName  "ATI"
>        BoardName   "ATI FireGL v3400"
>        BusID       "PCI:07:00:00"
> EndSection
> 
> But I end up with an error message at the end of the log file:
> 
> (EE) No devices detected.
> 
> Any suggestions?
FireGL 3400 is r5xx based (rv530 to be exact), which cannot be supported 
with the radeon driver at all unfortunately.
Either use vesa or try fglrx again (new ones ought to support xorg 7.1).

Roland