Re: XFree86 4.1.x ATI Radeon support?
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 15:34, John Cichy wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 March 2002 15:19, Scott Henson wrote:
> 4.1 did say that it has full support for radeon (the reason I purchased the
> card), it identified the card on my system, and X ran, but, I had many
> (sometimes 4 times a day) lockups that the only thing I could do was hit the
> reset button, the machine was completely hosed, no connection from outside
> (http,telnet,ssh, etc) and <ctrl><alt><F?> to switch consoles did not work.
>
> I have seen a lot of good reports about 4.2, and I personally will wait for
> 4.2 to make it to 'testing' before trying to re-install my radeon.
What version of the radeon is it? That is really wierd because my
radeon is rock solid. X never crashes unless I severly abuse it, and
even then a simple ctrl-alt-backspace will bring it back. Maybe you
just had a buggy version of X(meaning the debian package of it). I
would try it again because now X is quite stable because of the
closeness of the freeze. Its up to you, but I love my radeon and have
never had a problem with it. Well acctually that is not true. I am not
using the frame buffer in the kernel because X wouldnt start with it. I
just let X use the radeon directly. Maybe that was your problem. Well
Im not sure but I was also looking at the X documentation on my system.
It is all for 3.3. Is this a bug. Out of date documentation is bad and
I am really considering about filing a bug against xfree86-common.
Anyone know what severety it should be or even if I should file it?
--
-Scott Henson
shenson2@wvu.edu
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