RE: lenny amd64 for Desktop
Open your Xorg configuration in a text editor. (/etc/X11/xorg.conf)
In the "Device" section.
You'll see Driver "ATI" for x.org driver
Or
Driver "fglrx" for ATI binary driver.
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Montgomery [mailto:donm@methodbydesign.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 1:35 PM
To: Andrew Syrewicze
Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: lenny amd64 for Desktop
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Andrew Syrewicze wrote:
> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:12:30 -0500
> From: Andrew Syrewicze <asyrewicze@gmail.com>
> To: 'Don Montgomery' <donm@methodbydesign.com>
> Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: lenny amd64 for Desktop
> Resent-Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:12:51 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
>
> Are you using the Binary ATI driver?? Or the X.org opensource driver???
>
how do you tell???
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Montgomery [mailto:donm@methodbydesign.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 1:19 PM
> To: Heikki Levanto
> Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: lenny amd64 for Desktop
>
>
> video card info:
>
> ATI Radeon 9200
> AGP-9200S-TD2W-128D
> AGP 8X
> 0340005513; DML-1628
> rv280/M9+ Radeon 9200
>
> lspci
> ...
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200
> SE] (rev 01)
>
> Don
>
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Heikki Levanto wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:44:58 +0100
>> From: Heikki Levanto <heikki@lsd.dk>
>> To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: lenny amd64 for Desktop
>> Resent-Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:45:10 +0000 (UTC)
>> Resent-From: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:18:25AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:
>>> When I leave the machine overnight, it usually loses touch
>>> with the monitor. This occurs without regard to whether I
>>> lock the screen or not, or whether I leave the monitor
>>> turned on or off. No keypress, hotkey combo, or mouse
>>> wiggle has any apparent effect, and I have to hard reboot.
>>> I do not know what is causing it.
>>
>> Which graphics card do you have? And which driver? The symptoms sound
much
>> like what I had with Etch, Nvidia 8600, Nvidia's closed driver - except
> that
>> it happened immediately upon start of X. Often (but not always)
> accompanied
>> with a kernel panic in the nvidia module.
>>
>> I will try with my card on lenny, as soon as I get the time.
>>
>> -H
>>
>>
>
>
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