Bug#256855: No option for Radeon cards
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 00:52 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 07:18:56AM -0700, David Meggy wrote:
> > Hi, I just tried the new debian installer (labelled June 25th on the ftp
> > site). When I tried to setup X windows, I was given a choice of video
> > cards. Radeon was not in the list. Ati was but that did not work. So
> > I chose ati, and then edited by hand /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, to switch
> > ati with Radeon. Also the video timings for my monitor were incorrectly
> > guessed, but I don't think I can blame the xfree86 for this since it was
> > using the wrong driver.
> >
> > I have a Radeon 9200SE, running Debian Sarge on an AMD XP 1800+
>
> If 'ati' doesn't work, then 'radeon' has no business working.
That's the theory, but the ati wrapper requires code of its own to
support the same chips as radeon does. Maybe that was missed for a patch
which adds support for newer Radeon chips. Been there, got bitten by
that. :\
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