Re: Radeon Mobility M6/LY problem

[Matt Casey <mrc8@lehigh.edu>]

I'm actually already on X 4.2.1, using debian unstable (I should have 
said before..).  I'm using all the latest packages.
--Matt

Hal Vaughan wrote:

> It took me a week to get Debian to work with my ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 
> whenever I started X.  I finally changed the line in /etc/apt/sources.list so 
> it would take the testing debs instead of the stable, did apt-get update, 
> then apt-get x{whatever else they stuck on the name for x-common and standard 
> or server}.  Once XFree86 was upgraded to 4.2.x, it worked fine.
>
> I think this is one of the problems encountered due to the choice to upgrade 
> slowly -- it can take a LONG time before Debian supports new hardware.  (I 
> know my AIW Radeon is over a year old and it just isn't supported in Woody -- 
> you have to go to testing or unstable to get it to work.)
>
> Hal
>
> On Saturday 04 January 2003 02:04 pm, Matt Casey wrote:
>  
>
> > Greetings,
> > I recently purchased an hp pavilion xt345 laptop, which has an ATI
> > Radeon Mobility M6 video card.  Following some things that I'd read
> > online, I used the 'radeon' driver in my X configuration.  My problem is
> > this: about 1/2 the time when I start X, something goes wrong and it
> > appears as if some sort of refresh rate is incorrect.  It's clearly
> > trying to display the correct thing, but it shows things out of place
> > and 'shaking'.  If I switch to a terminal and back into X a few times,
> > the problem goes away (until I switch back to a terminal again).
> > Sometimes X starts up fine.  The same problems happen when I use
> > radeon-fb.  Any ideas on what could be wrong?
> > I would think that it has to do with the refresh rates in my X config
> > file, but I don't understand why it would work fine half the time, in
> > that case.
> > Please CC me in any replies.
> > Thanks!
> > --Matt
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