----- Original Message ----- From: John Cichy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 12:29 AM Subject: Re: [Newbie]Why dont this shit work
> On Monday 28 January 2002 10:56, Dexter Filmore wrote: > [snip] > > > > And xfree86.org claiming they'd support Radeon doesn't exactly help it. > > > > This is what bit me, I have been running linux boxes for years, I had some > money to through at a 'monster' box so I looked around at what was supported. > I have been running happily ATI cards sence way back when I was running OS/2 > 1.0 and fidonet, when I saw the ATI Radeon was supported by Xfree, I made my > choice. The problem here is I am used to fooling around with hardware and > installs (if you've ever installed OS/2 you know what I mean), but for a > newbie, this would certinly 'prove' linux to be no better then 'windoze'. I > think we as a community need to police ourselves a little better and make > SURE if we say hardware is supported, it can be installed by a newbie. I'm a bit confused here. I have a 1.2GHz TBird with an ATi Radeon and it worked "out of the box" with my Mandrake 8.0. Have the folks at XFree broken the Radeon support? What's funny is that the Radeon doesn't work in Windows (GPF's, err, Exceptions), so since I was building a Linux box I decided what the hey. No problems. Paul Nixon _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
