On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 23:33 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > FYI I had also installed fglrx-driver and related packages (no 3D > > stuff). These caused X to fail and print a backtrace. I removed them > > and the open source drivers seemed to get control back. > > > > Are you saying that radeonhd 1.2.4 works fine now that fglrx has been > removed? No. Just that before removing the fglrx I saw errors apparently caused by it. After I removed it, radeonhd ran as before (same warnings, no errors, black screen). > Or are you just saying that it doesn't crash anymore but still > fails to drive the screen correctly you said earlier? > Yes.
The "radeon" driver, on the other hand, actually works. > > It does! Thank you! > > (I added Driver "radeon" to xorg.conf.) > > > > How do radeonhd and radeon differ? > > > > The name is different, radeon supports more old boards, people are > different but work a bit together... It's a useless mess from my point > of view nowadays, you don't want to know... > > Brice > -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 r...@biostat.ucsf.edu Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94107-1739 hm: (415) 550-1062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org