Am Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:21:20 +1000 schrieb Lachlan <lachlan.00@gmail.com>: > i had a lot of trouble in lenny with my HD3870 especially if i didn't > use the proprietary driver (google ati linux driver if you don't have > it) I (Radeon HD 3450) had a lot of trouble with the proprietary drivers. Suspend to RAM resulted in a crash. Opening kaffeine resulted in a crash. Compiling a new kernel resulted in no graphics at all. I'm done with the proprietary driver and am using the latest git-version of xf84-video-ati with xserver 1.6.1. Now I know what stability really means. 3D is missing right now, but mesa will have r600/r700 support in version 7.6, it's just a matter of time. > boot into single user mode and set your xorg to use the vesa driver. > that way you can use your desktop and then look at whether > fglrx/radeon/radeonhd will work with your card. > > the fglrx driver that worked best for me was 8.6 on lenny. (google > should help getting older drivers.) > > if a driver has been set in xorg.conf you can also comment it out and > see if the xseerver will pick the correct driver, i can't remember if > x was very good at that with lenny. If the proprietary drivers are installed no 3D acceleleration is possible in other drivers due to ATIs own libGL1.so. Andreas
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