Re: Getting X working on Thinkpad A31p
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 09:01, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
>
> 1. I have the XFree86 4.2 source; I imagine it would be better to
> install this as a .deb than from source directly. Is this correct? If
> so, how go I go about it (or where would I find such info in
> man/info/howto/etc?).
# /etc/apt/sources.list for X 4.2 packages
deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ sid/i386/
> 2. I'm installing the bf2.4 flavour of Debian Woody. Installing kernel
> modules, the video module aty128fb (for ATI Rage 128) installed fine,
> but radeonfb failed with a 'No such device' error. Yet the A31p does
> have a Radeon chip. What's happening?
>
> Any leads wrt either of the above would be much appreciated.
To use X 4.2 and DRI with my Rage 128 (A21p) I found I had to grab the
CVS copy of DRI from xfree86.org and compile that into my kernel.
Possibly a 2.4.19rc3 kernel has the latest X already in there.
Regards,
Andrew.
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