John Summerfield wrote:
Michael Hannon wrote:
Greetings. We just installed Scientific Linux 5.0 on a Dell Optiplex
745 belonging to one of the professors here. On the whole, the system
works just fine, but we've got one small, annoying glitch with the
video, and I'm seeking advice about it. Note that we've installed the
32-bit version of SL, on the theory that there would be better
drivers, etc., for this version (and this is the prof's desktop
system, not a number cruncher).
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There's an AMD chap hangs out on the Nahant (RHEL4) list. I don't know
whether he's on the RHEL5 list too.
I suppose one could ask for experiences on one or both of those lists
and hope he bites.
RHEL is very important to AMD (they use lots of licences of it) and I
speculate they'd be interested in having it work well with ATI graphics,
not that AMD has bought ATI.
I personally don't often buy new kit; by the time it's od enough to come
my way, those issues are properly sorted out:-)
One thing I didn't notice you mentioned: why are the standard Linux
drivers inadequate?
Thanks, John. We get the same behavior with the standard drivers.
(This could simply mean that we're making the same mistake with both
drivers, of course.)
- Mike
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