radeon 7000 and an old mach64

[tyche]

On Monday 29 March 2004 14:51, Jim Hayward wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 09:09, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > tyche wrote:
> > > dont know if it can do any damage to the card or not, but i bought a
> > > new radeon today and forgot to change my x settings before stating x
> > > up.  the old one was a mach64gt. can i do damage running x without
> > > changing it?
>
> No, you will not damage your card.
>
> > Well, you won't get X, I don't think.
>
> Actually it will. The Mach64 chipsets use the "ati" driver. The "ati"
> driver is just a wrapper that auto detects the ATI video card you are
> running and then loads the correct driver. In this case it just
> automatically loads the "radeon" driver for his new card.
>
> Most of the time the auto detection works correctly. But if for some
> reason it doesn't you can specify which driver to load in your
> XF86Config. i.e "radeon", "r128", etc...
>
>
> Regards,
> 	Jim H
thanks, just wanted to make sure

tyche