Hello Tony,
Monday, January 17, 2005, 11:38:37 AM, you wrote:
TB> At least progress is being made.
Got xawtv working with sound but can't use wine, the monitor just turns off and the system locks if I try.
That, afaik, is an ATI driver problem-- the same thing happens to me with 3.14.6 (the monitor goes on standby, must reboot to get a display back). Hoping this will be resolved with the new drivers (or, unless you want to play Doom 3, you can drop back to 3.14.1; 3.14.6 was mostly just a hotfix to enable ATI users to play that particular game, which otherwise crashed-- otherwise there are no changes from 3.14.1).
If I load the fancy config file created with the ATI config program I can run tvtime but if I stop it, the monitor dies and PC locks up.
So I unmerged the ATI drivers and although have no TV, my system is stable.
You begin to see why people are waiting very very avidly for the 8.08 drivers due today. The ATI drivers are *really bad*. The badness of the drivers is actually the reason I installed SuSE when I broke Gentoo and needed an Alternative install system to reinstall from-- ATI works directly with SuSE to repackage the drivers for their distribution, so other than RedHat (for which the drivers are designed; and I mean RedHat, not Fedora or RHEL, RedHat 9, which I despised), the most "reliable" temporary distro for me to evaluate the new drivers on is SuSE.
So it's not you, Tony.... we both made a poor buying decision and now are paying the price for it. Hopefully it will all be better soon.
(I'm not bitter)
Holly
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