Re: X in Compaq Presario 900
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 07:50:16 -0800
Fedor Karpelevitch <fedor.karpelevitch@Barra.COM> wrote:
> sorry, I did not really understand -
>why did you have to bother with the
> files and not just upgrade the package?
Because to upgrade the package needs to use
some packages of the unstable part. Like libc6
and maybe many others. This has prevented me
to break some dependencies.
>
> And so, you say that this radeon (is it really the
>same one as in presario 900?) works fine with 4.2.1,
> but not yet 4.1 ? From what I heard so far it
> was only going to be supported in 4.3 or something...
> If that is right, it is great news then!
>
This is what lspci is saying to me :
VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY
So this one is working with 4.2.1
> --
> fedor.
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Julien MARY [mailto:julien.mary@free.fr]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:43 PM
> > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: X in Compaq Presario 900
> >
> >
> >
> > What i have done is not totally clean but works very well.
> > (for evo n160 with Rage Mobility M6 Radeon)
> >
> > I have installed everything i need with version 4.1.0. Then
> > i have downloaded the same packages from the unstable part.
> >
> > Then i have used mc to visit the .deb files.
> > And i have copied everything from mc.
> > For the system, no dependencies are broken.
> > It is believing that it is 4.1.0 but it is 4.2.1.
> > And radeon works with 4.2.1
> >
> > Now, i'm glad :-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 14 Nov 2002 01:49:22 +0100
> > Vicente Aguilar <bisente@bisente.com> wrote:
> >
> > > El mié, 13-11-2002 a las 17:38, Mattia Dongili escribió:
> > >
> > > > Radeons are supported with X > 4.1.99 :P
> > >
> > > This particular one isn't. :-P
> > >
> > > :)
> > >
> > > These laptops ship with a new integrated chipset by ATI,
> > the IGP320M or
> > > Radeon Mobility U1. A part of this chipset is the graphic
> > card, which
> > > claims to be Radeon 7000 compatible but doesn't work with
> > XFree86 4.2.x
> > > (even forcing drivers with ChipID, all you get is a garbled
> > screen). The
> > > AGP bus, which is also part of the chipset, isn't supported by the
> > > kernel either.
> > >
> > > But both the framebuffer and X work with the VESA drivers.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Vicente Aguilar <bisente@bisente.com> | http://www.bisente.com
> > >
> > >
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