On Die, 2002-02-05 at 16:22, James D Strandboge wrote:
> I have an Inspiron 4100, 1Ghz, 16MB Radeon Mobility M6 that I cannot
> keep running for any length of time.  The machine is pingable and I can
> ssh into it, but the display is locked.

Can you kill the X server and/or clients and start X again?

> Is it a requirement to use XFree86 4.2.0 with the drivers from
> http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/ ?  I am using those drivers but with the
> redhat 4.1.0 rpms.

Shouldn't be a problem, the drivers should fail if the versions are
incompatible.

> Also, is the support for this chipset (4c59 based on lspci) considered
> stable at this point?

Actually yes I think. You may want to try everything 4.2.0, and there
have been a few Radeon fixes posted to the dri-devel list lately.


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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