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Re: Radeon 9000 Pro



Antony Gelberg <antony@antgel.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> >> Antony Gelberg wrote:
> >> > Maybe not.  The site is NLA.  I've emailed Daniel Stone to see where
> >> > his Woody backports live these days, meanwhile if anyone knows where
> >> > they are, please feel free to share!
> >> >
> >> > Antony
> >>
> >> Right - apparently apt-get.org is wrong and Daniel never had any XF86 4.3
> >> for Woody.  If I build it myself, how can I get apt to behave as if that
> >> version is installed?
> >
> >Yes he did. I've got it. From
> >http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86. It's still there...
> >
> >-- 
> >Pigeon
> 
> Weird.  I wonder why Daniel told me otherwise.  Anyway, I'll try it.  I'm
> getting by with the VESA driver, but obviously it's kind of pants.  Then
> again it helps me get away from WinXP...
> 
> Antony

Coming into this very late, but I booted knoppix and it detected my
Radeon 9000 Pro and set it up with DRI support.  I installed it to
harddisk.  

ii  xfree86-common 4.3.0-0ds4     X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure
ii  xserver-xfree8 4.3.0-0ds4     the XFree86 X server

Peter



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