Re: XF4.1 on ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 08:07, Florian Thiel wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:35:47PM +0200, Juergen Stuber wrote:
> > Oleg <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com> writes:
> > >
> > > I've installed Debian on half a dozen different machines, and configuring X
> > > has always been the greatest pain. Currently, I'm trying to do this on a
> > > Fujitsu Lifebook E-7110 laptop that has an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 card
> > > (32MB) and an LCD that can do up to 1400x1050 @ 60 Hz.
> > >
> > > When I tried installing Mandrake 9.0 just for kicks, it configured X without
> > > even asking me any questions (I should have probably saved its XF86Config-4
> > > for reference, but I didn't). Now with Debian on the same machine instead, I
> > > spent all night trying to get ANY graphics to work. WTF?
> >
> > AFAIK you need XFree 4.2, which is in unstable.
>
> Yes. The Radeon drivers are only in 4.2. You could use apt's pinning
> feature (worked for me; I use testing).
>
>
Is there a difference between this and the "ati" driver that I am told
will work with ATI radeon 7500 cards under X4.1.0? How does this differ
from the radeon_drv.o driver I also have on my system (woody with
X4.1.0)?
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