Bill Wohler wrote:
In case there are still folks out there that like me have xserver-xorg
6.8 on hold because of the reports that X would freeze up if you had
an ATI card, I'd like to report that all is well.
I share the sentiments that the upgrade was a non-event for such a
major upgrade (at least now that the problems exposed with the early
reports have been fixed). I went into aptitude, unheld xorg-xserver,
hit U, and then g. Although I was expecting to have to apt-get install
-f a few times, I didn't have to run it once!
I have:
IBM ThinkPad t40p
ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] (rev 02)
Debian etch
I haven't seen any strange behavior in a few days now. I believe I
read that the ATI fixes were applied to Xorg 7.1, but it appears that
the these fixes were also applied to xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.5.8.0-1
which is available to Debian users of Xorg 7.0.
My thanks and appreciation go out to the X Strike Force.
A couple of notes:
1. glxgears missing
The fix was to install mesa-utils.
do you have 3D hw acceleration working? I thought it's not working or
VERY experimental in free ati driver
2. The courier fonts were ugly.
The fix was to rebuild xorg.conf (I'm assuming with a proper font
path). I did not have to resort to the workaround presented in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367593
some of my fonts look prety ugly too, how did you figure out what the
proper font path is? Whatever was there after dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg?
TIA,
erik
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