Kelly Clowers: Your mail came out almost unreadable:
> On 4/10/06, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi!>> The graphics > card in my Debian machine died a couple of weeks ago, and> I had to buy a new > one. I ended up with a ATI Radeon X1300, since I> have had good experiences > with ATI cards and Debian before.>> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: > ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 7146> 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: > ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 7166>> But it didn't work. Neither > XFree86 from Sarge nor Xorg from> backports.org find the card, so I'm > currently using the "vesa" driver,> which isn't very optimal. Is there any > version of X that works with> X1300?>> I tried downloading ATI's drivers, but > they give an error while trying> to build the module.>> make.sh: line 1: > gcc-2.9: command not found> make.sh: line 54: [: !=: unary operator > expected> ATI module generator V 2.0> ==========================> > initializing...> cleaning...> patching 'highmem.h'...> probing for VMA > API versi! on...> check results are inconsistent!!!> none of the probed versions did succeed.> aborting module build.>> --> \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ > As Vitaliy said, the ATI binaries do not support r5xx chips (X1xxx)and > unfortunately, neither do the open source drivers. > Seehttp://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon for details (bottom of thepage). Ok, I guess I have to wait for ATI to update their drivers, then. :-( Or switch the card over to the Windows box, which has an older, supported, ATI card. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
