Re: AAAAARGH! radeon 7500M problems

[debian@ausipos.com]

thanks for the feedback arief#

I don't think it is a hardware bug in mine as everything works well 
under M$ XP for me. everything works ok on 2.4.24 & XF86 4.2.1.1 even 
dri works, slow framerate tho, only 400 odd fps. have heard of people 
gettin 1000+ using XF86 4.3 & dri package, but I haven't had any luck 
with 4.3

would you be interested in my kernel .config (2.4.24) & XF86 config?

happy to send them on if you want.

ben

arief# wrote:
> My IBM Thinkpad T30 
> also has the beast inside.
>
> I kind of made it working once, but after a while it stuck and I have to
> reboot the machine. A couple of re-menuconfig my kernel, I got lost, and
> has not gain any success ever again. 
>
> I've use X 4.3 from experimental, and 2.6 kernel. 
> Once tried also in 2.4 with DRI patches. 
>
> I got console works with radeon framebuffer,
> X work but no DRI. :-(
>
> Anyone care to post kernel .config and X's XF86Config here?
>
> I suspect at my laptop, it's an hardware bug,
> WinXP has the same problem with graphic acceleration, too, it work for a
> minute or two and suddenly a nice BSOD pop out and reboot the machine. 
> I have to disable acceleration/radeon driver at XP, and use VESA. My
> god, VESA in WinXP is sooooo slowwww... and you can not even play movie
> with it.
>
> Another part where Linux excels....
>
>
> Regards,
> -arief
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 01:41, Jeff Breker wrote:
>
> > 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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