Re: XFree86 4.1.x ATI Radeon support?
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 17:57, Scott Henson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 15:34, John Cichy wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 March 2002 15:19, Scott Henson wrote:
> > 4.1 did say that it has full support for radeon (the reason I purchased
> > the card), it identified the card on my system, and X ran, but, I had
> > many (sometimes 4 times a day) lockups that the only thing I could do was
> > hit the reset button, the machine was completely hosed, no connection
> > from outside (http,telnet,ssh, etc) and <ctrl><alt><F?> to switch
> > consoles did not work.
> >
> > I have seen a lot of good reports about 4.2, and I personally will wait
> > for 4.2 to make it to 'testing' before trying to re-install my radeon.
>
> What version of the radeon is it? That is really wierd because my
> radeon is rock solid. X never crashes unless I severly abuse it, and
> even then a simple ctrl-alt-backspace will bring it back. Maybe you
> just had a buggy version of X(meaning the debian package of it). I
> would try it again because now X is quite stable because of the
> closeness of the freeze. Its up to you, but I love my radeon and have
> never had a problem with it. Well acctually that is not true. I am not
> using the frame buffer in the kernel because X wouldnt start with it. I
> just let X use the radeon directly. Maybe that was your problem. Well
> Im not sure but I was also looking at the X documentation on my system.
> It is all for 3.3. Is this a bug. Out of date documentation is bad and
> I am really considering about filing a bug against xfree86-common.
> Anyone know what severety it should be or even if I should file it?
ATI All-In-Wonder 32meg (not VE)
Actually, I was running Mandrake8.1, and I spent a lot of time on the xfree
list, after about 3 weeks of f@cking with it, I swaped the card out with an
8meg ATI and have not seen the problem anymore. I will probably try again
soon, but the 3 weeks of agony (not to mention lost productivity) takes some
time to get over ;-)
John
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