On Thursday 29 August 2002 05:27 pm, erik wrote:
> No chance with M9b4 to get FireGL 8800 with ATI R200 QH (AGP) chipset
> going......
> FireGL 8800 runs 2D straight from the SuSE 8.0 eval CD (an easy burn
> 650MB iso)
> and with
> RH7.3 download version + downloaded drivers from ATI I have run
> Tuxracer. (Well rather tricky for me to get FireGL 8800 working in RH 7.3 )
> I believe Hardware support is more important than 1000s of MB of
> packages in a Download Version. I bought the boxed M7.0 because the
> download version supported my Matrox G400 (which only SuSE which I did
> not like did at that time jan 2000 (support G400) and which Debian which
> I liked did not (support G400)) and the download M7.0 CD version worked
> good, no crasches. Later I bought M7.1 Deluxe because M7.1 Download
> supported the hardware and worked with no crashes.
> Erik

Can you explain what the actual problem is?  Mandrake does not ship commercial 
drivers (ATI's) on the Download CDs.  They should probably have the drivers 
on the commercial CDs.  In any case, what keeps you from downloading the RPM 
from ATI's website and installing that?
-- 
-- Igor

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