On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Charles A Edwards wrote: > You do not need to buy a new vid card. > It is just one of the things that can happen when you run cooker. > We stay in a semi-constant stage of flux with pkgs being > upgraded/patched/changed daily. > Sometimes this causes problems on some systems are with some apps but > they are corrected as timely as is possible. >
In my experience, and a few others I have helped (Mandrakeclub I think), Mandrake 8.2 and Mandrake 9.0 don't have a working X configuration out-the-box on a Radeon, and no newbie (maybe we need a new term, such as new customer ;-)) would be able to get it working, and would probably change distros (Rh 7.3 and 8.0 worked fine, with DRI) or revert to Windows. Even Knoppix had working DRI. I am less worried about DRI, but any user *MUST* get a working GUI if they so chose. This probably wouldn't help the Radeon users, but how about having X fall back to the vesa driver if it fails? I mean, really, Windows95 did this. And if that's not viable, then at least start up XFdrake (not that it would help NVidia users ...). AFAICR, even RH 6.1 did this (well, XConfigurator instead of XFdrake). Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
