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Re: AAAAARGH! radeon 7500M problems



My dell inspiron 4150 has a radeon 7500M card in it. It's running debian
testing with kernel 2.4.24 and XFree86 4.2.1.1 and works relativly out
of the box (just had to add "1400x1050" to the Modes for 24 bit depth
iirc).

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 10:49:13 -0500
Jordan Lederman <jlederma@versus.dmz.advance.net> wrote:

> Afaik, X 4.3 is not in sid (unstable) or sarge (testing). I have the
> M9 chipset and that's what was needed for me. Add a line to
> sources.list to pull xfree from experimental, and you should be all
> set.
> 			--jordan
> 
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:44:51AM -0500, Josh Grant wrote:
> > I had the same problem and finally gave up and went to Knoppix...
> > 
> > --On Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:37 AM +1000 debian@ausipos.com
> > wrote:
> > 
> > >Has anyone managed to get kernel 2.6.x work with X11 and radeon
> > >7500 M ? If you have how on earth did you do it??!!
> > >
> > >I've been trying since 2.6t3 and no luck yet. I am trying to stick
> > >to debian testing (sarge?sid? i never know which one is which) to
> > >do this, i.e. without installing a non debian X11.
> > >
> > >I have done a fair bit of searching on the net and can't seem to
> > >find anything radeon 7500 specific.
> > >
> > >cheers,
> > >
> > >Ben.
> > >
> > >
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> > 
> > 
> > -=Josh G=-
> > jgrant@andrew.cmu.edu
> > 
> > 
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