Re: Woody on ThinkPad A31
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 09:18 pm, Albert Dengg wrote:
> > Well, According to 4.1.0 release documentation (
> > http://www.xfree.org/4.1.0/Status6.html#6 ): Accelerated support is
> > provided for Mach64, Rage, Rage 128 and Radeon chips.
>
> As far as i now, radeon cards are supported ut for some reason not the
> radeon mobilty...
I see, didn't know they were this much diffrent.
> > Btw, as I said in my previous message, I took the second route,
> > upgraded to 4.2.1 using apt-get, but as I said, this didn't improve
> > things.
>
> ...
>
> >Yup, I used debconf, and it is not giving the "radeon" driver option.
> >Doese this mean I shouldn't use debconf for setting up X?
>
> that should not matter...
> If I'm not complitly wrong, there is only one ati driver....
When I had mandrake 9.0 on this machine, I noticed it had loaded a "radeon"
driver instead of an "ati" one, which at the time was very strange for me,
because AFAIK there is no "radeon" driver in XFree86. Wierd I guess
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