Le Dimanche 12 Janvier 2003 02:11, D F a �crit : > On January 11, 2003 10:40, Buchan Milne wrote: > > 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 > > Hmmmm... Perhaps I'm unusual but I had a working Radeon 7500 > installation with 3d accel out of the box on 9.0
I had a working Radeon 7500 out of the 9.0 box too, with DRI. (Card:ATI Radeon : ATI|Radeon Mobility M7 LW) Sebastien.
