The computer is an HP Pavilion 8390 - Pentium II 450Mhz with 384MB RAM. The video card is a Radeon 32MB SDR installed in PCI slot 1. This card replaces the delivered, on-board AGP video (ATI RAGE PROD 2x AGP with 8MB).
I'm attempting to run Mandrake Linux 8.1. I have just finished downloading the latest stable Debian release, but have not attempted to install it. Would that make any difference? I can run Mandrake in text mode with no problem. The machine locks when startx runs; startx changes the video mode, a graphical mouse cursor appears, and that's the end of it. The mouse cursor moves, but that's it. <Ctrl><Alt><Backspace> has no effect, nor does any other keyboard input that I've tried have any effect. I have this exact version of Mandrake running on another P2 450MHz machine without this problem, but it's using an older video card. Thanks! Mark >On what type of confusor/computer are you running this on and what >>type of >Linux? >>From: "Mark Pitts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: [Newbie]ATI Radeon Help >>Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:51:06 -0500 >> >>Greetings all, >> >>I have an ATI Radeon card that is not yet supported by the publicly >>available release of XFree86. On the XFree86 website, I found a statement >>that the Radeon cards are now supported by XFree86, and that support will >>be available in the next release (whenever that will be). >> >>If the driver(s) have already been written, would it be possible to get an >>alpha/beta copy from someone? I'm dead in the water without it...I can't >>start X; it just locks my machine. >> >>Thanks, >> >>Mark _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
