On 05 Jul 2002 16:11:58 +0200
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 05:50, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
> >
> > I'm new to this list. I joined because I have an ATI Expert 2000 card. I
> > have Mandrake 8.2 with the default Xfree 4.2.0 installed. I am
> > experiencing random lockups. The whole machine locks up. I can move the
> > mouse pointer around but cannot click on anything. The ONLY thing that
> > works is either a manual machine reset or Alt+SysReq+K which kills X and
> > allows me to restart X with the mouse. I've been reading about the
> > problems others have had with this driver/card, is there any easy
> > workaround or fix for this problem? I mean, is there an easy hack I can
> > perform that will stop these annoying lockups?
>
> If you don't need the DRI, disable it.
Thank you for replying.
What is DRI, what is it used for? And, since I am timerous about screwing things
up, please tell me eaxctly how to do
that.
>
> > Also, I have an ATI Radeon 7200 card that I cannot get setup. Does Xfree
> > 4.2.0 support this card?
>
> I think it should, but maybe ATI has been creative regarding PCI IDs again.
> What's the problem you're facing?
I found out that the 7200 card was defective. I did manage to get it working,
but after only about 5 minutes of operation, the whole screen would begin
blinking off and on until finally the screen would just freeze. Two times this
happened in Linux and in Windows so I know it was the card. I contacted ATI and
they are going to repair it for me on warranty.
>
> > Is this 7200 a good card?
>
> Most definitely much better than the Expert 2000.
>
>
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> Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
> XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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