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Re: ATI Radeon 9000 question



You have to create /winxp dir for the mount point then use:
$ mount /dev/hda1 /winxp
wasily

On Thursday 14 August 2003 08:52, lameth wrote:
> I've just moved back from slackware to Debian and I'm running into a few
> problems.
>
> Version 4.1 of Xfree86 doesn't support my graphics card, an ATI Radeon
> 9000. After installing Debian 3.0 I'm stuck with no x-windows. This
> leaves me with two options one of which I've tried but I'm having a
> problem with.
>
> Since I have a dual boot system with windows xp I went to ati's website
> and downloaded the drivers for my card that are used with version 4.1.0
> of Xfree86. The only problem is linux doesn't see my winxp drive. I've
> added /dev/hdb1   /winxp   vfat user,noauto  0  0 to my fstab file but
> when I try to mount /winxp or /dev/hdb1 it tells me mount point /winxp
> doesn't exist. That is correct isn't it? I was hoping I could access the
> driver file that way and use alien to convert the rpm file into a .deb
> file.
>
> My second option is to get xserver-common 4.2.0 and xserver-xfree86
> 4.2.0 from unstable and use that.  Will I have to switch my entire
> system to testing if I do that? And if so what do I need to put in my
> list.sources file so that apt will get the right packages.
>
> TIA
> lameth



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