I know all too well about the Proprietary architecture of certain
peripherals inside my Gateway. I was not too pleased to find the Philips
CDR I purchased with it had no brand name in the firmware so it couldn't be
flashed with Philips updates. Not too surprising the Radeon card appears to
be a special version for Gateway as well. I can't complain too much about
the quality of my machine it has worked quite well as it was sold but I know
as soon as replacement time comes, I will build from scratch as I have
always done in the past.
On a side note, if I do just replace the video card, are there any good
quality sub $100 Cards that Linux likes from the get go without having to
re-compile anything. I am a veteran in the Dos/Windows world but a virgin
when it comes to Linux.
TIA... Again,
Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Tharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Rick Shear'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Newbie (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie]HELP: Athlon, M7M and Radeon
> afaik... also.. from past experience... you might not want to contact DELL
> about using LINUX on a machine that is supposed to be under warranty..
they
> might end the warranty as use of LINUX used to void the DELL win-warranty.
> (was a couple of years ago but just a call that said you had already
> installed linux would be the end of the warranty.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Rick Shear'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Newbie (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 8:43 AM
> Subject: RE: [newbie]HELP: Athlon, M7M and Radeon
>
>
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > Since only the Dell supplied driver will work in Windows you have
received
> > what in technical terms is known as "the shaft".
> >
> > The card you have, while in fact a Radeon has been in some fashion
> > manufactured to be proprietary to Dell.
> >
> > The only option I can see, other than buying a New card, is to contact
> Dell
> > Tech Support in the hopes that they can provide you with assistance.
> >
> > Charles )-:
> >
> > Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rick Shear
> > > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 11:34 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie]HELP: Athlon, M7M and Radeon
> > >
> > >
> > > Would the fact that the Radeon card I have is SDR not DDR? I
> > > know the card
> > > requires a driver from Gateway to run windows. I haven't
> > > found one on ATI's
> > > site that will work. Maybe this card is just odd and causing
> > > the problem.
> > > The only other problem I could see is that I am installing on
> > > my second hard
> > > drive with lilo on the primary.
> > >
> > > Thanks for all the information,
> > >
> > > Rick
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "'Rick Shear'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Cc: "Newbie (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 7:43 AM
> > > Subject: RE: [newbie]HELP: Athlon, M7M and Radeon
> > >
> > >
> > > > The Radeon requires X 4.02, so it is not going to work in a
> > > stock 7.2
> > > > install
> > > > and/or system.
> > > >
> > > > I currently have 2 Radeon cards, a 32MB DDR and a 64MB DDR
> > > w/VIVO, and I
> > > > think
> > > > both cards are great.
> > > > Both system, a Duron 800mhz and a t-bird 1.00ghz, have the
> > > ASUS A7V MOBO
> > > and
> > > > Maxtor ATA100 hds.
> > > > I have had no real problem either installing or running
> > > SuSE7.1, RH 7.1,
> > > and
> > > > of course Mandrake 8.0.
> > > > Additionally with Mandrake 8.0 I was using the experimental
> > > 3d hardware
> > > > acceleration.
> > > >
> > > > Charles (-:
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
>
>
