On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 04:34:11PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> > > Could someone add to the "Known Problems" for the Radeon that it
> > > doesn't work with certain AMD chipsets? This is a pretty serious bug
> > > that apparently has been known about for quite some time. I certainly
> > > wouldn't have gone out and dumped almost $300 on a Radeon All-in-Wonder
> > > if I had known it would only work under Windows on my machine
> > > (SD11/Irongate motherboard).
> >
> > I'll add a note about this.
> >
> > Just curious: have you tried using Linux after Windows (without
> > a power cycle)? Is is possible to upgrade the BIOS? I really
> > don't know much about this sort of thing.
>
> Last I had a chance to check, both Radeon and G400 locked up hard on AMD
> 750 chipsets. That was about two months ago, right before I sold my AMD
> 750 motherboard :)
There also appears to be a conflict with the Radeon 64 and the KT133A (or
at least the Abit KT7A..) Nobody so far has been able to confirm it that
I've seen, but the problem is documented with workaround for Win00. Given
that I have the same setup, same symptoms, and that people with other
Radeon's do not experience problems, it's the only likely cause of
problems that has not already been discounted by testing.
Here's hoping the VIA guy wanting to submit drivers and patches on l-k
has some agpgart fixes, eh? =)
--
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free software developer
<knghtbrd> Solver_: add users who should be messing with sound to group
audio.. Make sure the devices are all group audio (ls -l
/dev/dsp will give you the fastest indication if it's probably
set right) and build a kernel with sound support for your card
<knghtbrd> OR optionally install alsa source and build modules for that
with make-kpkg
<knghtbrd> OR (not recommended) get and install evil OSS/Linux evil
non-free evil binary only evil drivers---but those are evil.
And did I mention that it's not recommended?
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