<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >System Requirements</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="ATI R200 + XFree86 4.x mini-HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Copyright & License" HREF="copyright.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="The alternatives" HREF="alternatives.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="chapter" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >ATI R200 + XFree86 4.x mini-HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="copyright.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="alternatives.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="chapter" ><H1 ><A NAME="sysreq" ></A >Chapter 2. System Requirements</H1 ><P >For this HOWTO to apply to you, you'll need the following hardware/software up and running:</P ><P >Hardware</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >ATI R200 (Radeon 8xxx) based AGP card</P ></LI ></UL ><P >Software</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Linux kernel 2.4.x (check with <TT CLASS="userinput" ><B >uname -r</B ></TT >)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Glibc 2.2 (check with <TT CLASS="userinput" ><B >/lib/libc.so.X</B ></TT > where X is a decimal number)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >XFree86 4.2.x for alternative 1 (check with <TT CLASS="userinput" ><B >X -version</B ></TT >)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >XFree86 4.1.x for alternatives 2, 3 and 5 (check with <TT CLASS="userinput" ><B >X -version</B ></TT >)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >XFree86 4.x for alternative 4 (check with <TT CLASS="userinput" ><B >X -version</B ></TT >)</P ></LI ></UL ><DIV CLASS="important" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="important" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/important.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Important"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >If you run XFree86 4.1.x/4.0.x on your computer, you can NOT use alternative 1, as shown above. Of course you can try it, but it won't work (or at least it didn't for me). Also, if you read <A HREF="http://www.xfree86.org/" TARGET="_top" >The XFree86 Project</A >'s <A HREF="http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/RELNOTES.html" TARGET="_top" >release notes</A > for XFree 4.1.x, you'll see that the R200 chipset is not listed as a supported chipset for the <TT CLASS="filename" >radeon_drv.o</TT > driver, which means that the Radeon 8xxx is NOT supported. However, if you read the <A HREF="http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES.html" TARGET="_top" >release notes</A > for XFree 4.2.x, you'll see that the chipset IS supported by the same driver.</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P >Once you have met the system requirements, it's time to decide which of the available alternatives to choose.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="copyright.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="alternatives.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Copyright & License</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >The alternatives</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >