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> -----Mensaje original----- > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > nombre de Alex Deucher > Enviado el: lunes, 29 de diciembre de 2003 14:05 > Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Asunto: [XFree86] Re: Help: radeon 9700 question - need working config > > > you may a newer version of xfree86. I'm not familiar with what is > included with suse 9. An xfree86 log would be helpful. Also for help > related inquiries please use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ML. > > Alex > > --- "William W. Austin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apologies in advance for this, but I've been pulling my hair out for > > hours on this one. > > > > My nephew (lives several hundred miles away) wanted to install linux > > on > > his formerly win-xp machine (athlon 2800 xp, 512 MB, 2 large drives, > > etc.) with Radeon 9700 Pro (128 MB) video card. He went out and > > bought > > Suse 9 and did a completely clean install (with me on the other end > > of > > the phone line the whole time - he's new to anything not from MS). > > Everything installed cleanly and the machine booted successfully, > > HOWEVER: > > > > The video card is not recognized. It is a Radeon 9700 Pro with 128 > > Mb > > of memory (AGP) and works correctly under the other OS, but although > > it > > shows up in scanpci and lspci, the setup utility on Suse bombs and > > cannot set up the card. He is also singularly unable to > run a simple > > command (rpm -q XFree86) to tell me the version on that > machine - and > > I > > haven't been able to get the info from any Suse website (and his net > > access is temporarily down until school starts again in January). > > > > I've spent nearly the entire day (11 hours) with him on the phone > > trying > > to find a solution but I nave other cards - no radeons - and my > > config > > files don't help here). XFre86 -configure fails, unable to find the > > device. If anyone has a working XF86Config file they can email me, > > I'd > > greatly appreciate it (as a last effort before I tell him > to turn off > > linux until I can go visit him in 3 weeks). I'm going out of town > > and > > he is nearly desparate to get X up and running on this machine. > > > > Please feel free to mail me privately if you can help. > > > > Thanks and apologies for wasting the bandwidth. > > > > Bill Austin > > > > > > -- > > William W. Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Life is just a phase I'm going through..." > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. > http://photos.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
