On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 07:09, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > Dave Sherman wrote: > > Gary Hodder wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> has anyone got the radeon 7000 video card to work with rc2 which uses > >> Xfree > >> 4.3? > >> It works fine on mdk 9.0 Xfree 4.2 in single head. > >> I Have got the dri drivers to try out tonight. > >> Any gotcha's that I should know about? > > > > > > I know the mobile Radeon in my laptop doesn't work with DRI. > > Specifically, whenever I try to restart the X server (including changing > > the screen resolution, logging out of my desktop, or rebooting), the > > system locks up bad and forces me to do a hard reboot. By disabling 3d > > acceleration (DRI), this problem went away. This is apparently a known > > bug in the radeon driver - I found the problem mentioned in the Mandrake > > Cooker mailing list archives. > > > > I am running Mandrake 9.1 rc2, updated to Cooker, including X 4.3. > > > I've got an oem radeon 7000 (32M ddr, r100, QD) with which I had a > freeze in X requiring disabling dri back in the betas but running ok > with dri enabled ever since. There seems to be some variation in how > various radeon chips work with XFree86 as there have been problems > reported that I have not had. This is not a laptop nor dual-head nor tv > anything. > > rolf > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
get GATOS Drivers for 4.3 and your problems should be solved. My Radeon AIW (r100 chip) wouldn't even start XFree without those, it just promptly crashed the whole computer (Booting it) url: http://gatos.sf.net/ You need the ati.2 driver atleast. -- Seppo Jarvinen,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Never trust an operating system Kenttäkatu 9 A 2,76100 PIEKSÄMÄKI you don't have sources for. GSM +358 40 568 1756 You never know what you're facing Power the World, With Linux! unless you dare to LOOK AT IT. Technology lies on the leading edge
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