Re: AAAAARGH! radeon 7500M problems
Thanks also for your feedback,
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 10:28, debian@ausipos.com wrote:
> 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
Is that means you have not a working DRI also?
I get DRI works once or twice. But they got doomed, and I have never
made them back.
>
> would you be interested in my kernel .config (2.4.24) & XF86 config?
>
> happy to send them on if you want.
>
I would love that.
Thanks.
-arief
> 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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