Hi.. I have tried to do everything I could to get my dell inspiron 8100 to work with mandrake 8.1 FYI: cooker detected everything on the inspiron. except the video card (ATI Radeon mobility 7500 - 64MB) I upgraded X to Xfree86 4.2.0 and extracted the ati.2 binaries in /usr and I checked and the new radeon driver and some other stuff were put into /usr/X11R6 I try to test out X after configuring it and my display seems to change video modes.. And then locks up. I can't do anything. No ctrl+alt+bkspc So I have to hit the power button I installed cooker with X4.2 included.. And by default it installed and older version of X After it said congrats.. And rebooted. I logged in. extracted the ati.2 binaries in /usr and I checked and they were In their directory in /usr/X11R6 . So I ran XFDrake and I chose ATI radeon. prompted me for resolution. tested the dude out. worked and I was able to start X. I extracted the drm kernel from Gatos and I got 3dacceleration. Perfect. Could you please include the ati.2 binaries and drm kernel in 8.2?
Unrelated but.. If someone can answer I would really appreciate it. What am I doing wrong. that I can't get X to start in 8.1? I installed 8.1.. uninstalled XFree86. Got the xfree86 4.2 rpms from cooker and installed them Unpacked the ati.2 binaries . configured with XFdrake tried to run X and lock up. I then uninstalled the rpm.. Tried to install the Xfree 4.2 using the Xinstall.sh Script.. Extracted my ati.2 binaries, ran XFdrake . configured..and same problem.. lock up when I try to test out or startx. Adrian Rodriguez University of Southern California Computer Science Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers IT Officer - Software Development
