Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card

2010-10-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi Paul, it turned out there is a bug in the linux kernel up to and including 2.6.36 concerning drivers/gpu/drm/radeon when it comes to all graphics chips like RV350. Does anybody know about a patch for gentoo-sources-2.6.36 ? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. On 10/22/10 17:04:24, Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card

2010-10-25 Thread Jacques Montier
Hi all, I have an old RV350 9600 ATI graphic card and the open source radeon driver works fine with 2.6.36 kernel. Cheers, -- Jacques Le 25/10/2010 09:50, Helmut Jarausch a gentiment tapote: Hi Paul, it turned out there is a bug in the linux kernel up to and including 2.6.36 concerning

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card

2010-10-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/25/10 10:15:46, Jacques Montier wrote: Hi all, I have an old RV350 9600 ATI graphic card and the open source radeon driver works fine with 2.6.36 kernel. That depends on the application. e.g. glxgears runs fine while a PyOpenGL application crashes the whole machine. See

[gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card

2010-10-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, this is a bit off topic, since it primarily concerns a laptop running OpenSuSe 11.3, but I do need your help and I known there are experts here. This old laptop has a radeon RV350 (mobility Radeon 9600 M10) graphics card. There is an xf86-video-ati driver installed. Now, when booting

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card

2010-10-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, this is a bit off topic, since it primarily concerns a laptop running OpenSuSe 11.3, but I do need your help and I known there are experts here. This old laptop has a radeon RV350 (mobility Radeon 9600