I also had problems with this card that I fixed by editing my /etc/X11/XF86config-4 and commenting out the #Load "dri" that existed in the Section "Module". This was with a Gateway 450 laptop.
My opinion of this card is not good, dri doesn't play well with it, and it requires jumping through some hoops to get it to work correctly. Mandrake's configuration doesn't handle it properly (SuSe does, apparently). It appears that different hardware requires different strategies to get it functioning, maybe due to different versions of the chip, or maybe due to XF86 changes, I don't know. You may also want to try the "noapic" switch in the append line of lilo.conf, as well as be sure the bios is set to non PNP OS. e > My video card is an ATI Radeon Mobility U1. > > > *** side note *** > > While doing this, I would intermittently have my menu disappear, and would > have to run menudrake to fix it. Every time I had to re-run menudrake, the > config was set back to default (I have to set it back to "all environments" > and "all applications"). And after one time, my gnome-panel crashed with a > seg fault. > > > > <snip> > > > Certainly I can view dvds from xine, on a stock 9.1, with my drive not > > scsi-emulated, and plf files. > > I now have DVDs playing with KMplayer and VLC. > > > > TIA for any ideas or help > ========================= > David Steiner > www.DavidLSteiner.com > Proud Linux User #262493 > =========================
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