Re: problems with radeon driver
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:48 +0800, Bob wrote:
> Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am running etch in an amd64 system with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200
> >>>> (AGP) video card. The ATI driver from x.org doesn't work with this
> >>>> card, after a small GUI activity, the screen freezes. I've reported
> >>>>
>
> Have you tried in xorg.conf actually specifying the "radeon" driver
> instead of "ati", it shouldn't make any difference but...
> Driver "radeon"
> have a look at the man page
> http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man4/radeon.4.html
> you can probably find a more appropriate version on your PC, there are
> lodes of driver options, some of which are just there to overcome flaky
> implementations, if you can get the OS drivers to work it's well worth
> the effort, particularly now that ATI, in their infinite wisdom, have
> dropped support for older radeon GPUs from fglrx.
> http://airlied.livejournal.com/32819.html?view=66099#t66099
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=735&num=9
>
> Good luck.
> 8< snip >8
> PS. I don't have the OP so sorry the threading is all messed up.
>
> --
> Garrr, do your bit for global warming, become a pirate, you can "borrow" my copy of Windows 95 if you want.
>
Bob,
thank you very much for the advice. I will in this direction...
regards
Marcelo
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Marcelo Chiapparini
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chiappa@uerj.br
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