Sami Samhuri posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:52:56 -0700:
>> However, I got it working with an ATI Radeon 9200 SE and the xorg native >> drivers the other day. It's /nice/ in KDE. That was running the >> xorg-x11-6.8.99.15 6.9/7.0 snapshot build, with unified framebuffer on a >> dual 2048x1736 monitor layout. > > I thought I would do the same, except after switching to an amd64 machine > any attempt to use my Radeon 9200 SE causes a hard lock up as soon as I > type 'startx'. No ssh'ing in from another box, no ctl-alt-bs, the only way > out is a hard reset. For now I'm using 2 GeForces, but I would rather > switch to the ATI. Did yours just work 'out of the box'? Pretty much, yes. I had been running an NVidia, then switched to an ATI 7500 (IIRC), then eventually to the 9200 SE. The switch from NVidia to the 7500 was a bit rough, as I had to convert my XF86Config from the format NVidia's proprietary drivers used for their options, to the equivalent XFree standard format, with a few Radeon driver specific options. However, everything was documented in the manpages, and since then, the upgrades have been trivial, to card, monitors, and xfree/xorg, all three. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
