Re: XF4.1 on ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
I had the same problem, it was solved by installing X 4.2 . X 4.2 is
already available on the 'unstable' servers (which saves you a lot of
work!)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-devel-announce-200210/msg00001.html
On 22 Oct 2002, Juergen Stuber wrote:
> Oleg <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com> writes:
> >
> > I've installed Debian on half a dozen different machines, and configuring X
> > has always been the greatest pain. Currently, I'm trying to do this on a
> > Fujitsu Lifebook E-7110 laptop that has an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 card
> > (32MB) and an LCD that can do up to 1400x1050 @ 60 Hz.
> >
> > When I tried installing Mandrake 9.0 just for kicks, it configured X without
> > even asking me any questions (I should have probably saved its XF86Config-4
> > for reference, but I didn't). Now with Debian on the same machine instead, I
> > spent all night trying to get ANY graphics to work. WTF?
>
> AFAIK you need XFree 4.2, which is in unstable.
>
> Jürgen
>
>
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