On Monday 28 January 2002 12:51, you wrote: > ----- 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. >
I think what happened was it did work is 'some' cases on 'some' distros. I started fooling around with Mandrake because of reports it was working. I had no luck with 8.0, but when 8.1 was released it was detected during install and booted right up, but the GUI would lock at least once a day. After replacing it with an older rage, the lockups stoped. Now I see the new version is getting raves from the radeon users, I will wait just a little longer to make the change. If you look in the archives of this list, you will find a large amount of problems related to Radeon. My mistake was I did not look at the list before making the purchase, but Xfree.org said it was supported, so why should I look on the list...live and learn. Please don't get me wrong, I'm commited to linux and though I have 25boxes here at the home office, not one of them runs windoze. I just think that is up to us, in the open-source community, to try and make it as easy as posible for the newbie to succeed. John > Paul Nixon > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
