Thanks Michel for your _very_ helpful reply! On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 01:38, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 20:03, Andreas Leitner wrote: > > > > Anyway, right now I am using the "vesa" driver in X11, since no other > > driver (except the proprietory ATI driver, which had problems with 2.6) > > worked. I tried XFree 4.2 from unstable 4.3 from experimental (and even > > the prebuild drm-trunk). I used the driver "ati" and "radeon" but X > > could never find my card. > > FWIW, there's xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk 2003.10.05-2, which might work > with your card out of the box, just waiting to be built for i386. See > http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/README.Debian for an alternative > source while people.debian.org is down.
Oh, I see. The Readme didnt mention a deb-src. Is there one available, or is building it more complicated that that? Do you need a volunteer? > > I think it could be that my radeon has an ID that the X11 radeon driver > > doesnt recognize yet. > > Right, and a workaround for that is always to override the chip ID to a > similar chip it does recognise. Oh, neat. I will try it ASAP. thanks alot, Andreas --
