Charlie writes: > May 28, 2002 02:07 pm,Joe Sotham wrote: >> I've been running a dual-boot Mandrake 8.2/Windows system since 8.2 became >> available. Today, I had to upgrade/replace my old video card because it >> has gone bad (GeForce 2 with an ATI Radeon 8500.) I'm using a stock kernel >> and without the NVIDIA 3GL drivers installed, I do not startx at boot time. >> >> I can get to lilo and boot in to windows just fine, however, when I try to >> boot in to linux, linux-nonfb, or failsafe the system freezes. I've also >> tried reinstalling from cd#1. >> >> Any thoughts, any suggestions would be much appreciated. >> >> The Windows side boots fine and found all the new hardware. >> >> Joe Sotham >> ----------------------------- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > All I know about who/what/when and if regarding Linux driver development for > ATI products is from this ATI page: http://www.ati.com/developer/linux.html > > I hope you can find something there that will help you since the links to > "supported" developers pages are there. > > I often 'march to a different beat' myself, so I can understand buying a > graphics card from someone other than NVidia, but I don't think I would have > bought an ATI (even though they're a "Canajun" company, eh. ;-)) until the > driver projects have had a bit more time to gel. > -- > Charlie > Edmonton,AB,Canada > Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org > A definition of teaching: casting fake pearls before real swine. > -- Bill Cain, "Stand Up Tragedy" >
Truth is I wasn't even paying attention to what hardware is supported... Joe Sotham -----------------------------
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