In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Tony Houghton wrote: > > > I've switched from the closed "fglrx" driver to the open "ati" driver > > for now, because the dual head works with ati. But the DPMS still > > doesn't work on the DVI, so I don't think it's driver-specific. > > > > The "radeon" driver must be a bit of a red herring as far as the newer > > cards are concerned. Was this for the original Radeon, then development > > focus switched back to the ati driver, shelving the radeon driver? > > The ati driver ati_drv.o is just a wrapper which loads one of > atimisc_drv.o > r128_drv.o > or > radeon_drv.o > The idea is that you can put driver "ati" in your config, > and you don't have to worry which driver your particular chip needs. > (This is particularly important with cards like the Rage Pro, which > is supported by the atimisc driver, and the "Rage Pro 128", which > is supported by the r128 driver - if I remember correctly). That's strange, because when I tried the radeon driver originally it made the system do a hard reset each time I tried to start X. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
