Re: System hang with ATI's lousy driver

From: Craig Bradney
Date: Tue Apr 20 2004 - 17:21:03 EST


On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 21:08, Timothy Miller wrote:
> Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Timothy Miller wrote:
> >
> >
> >>So, since XFree86's lousy open-source Radeon driver won't do OpenGL
> >>right, I am forced to use ATI's lousy proprietary Radeon driver. With
> >>that, I can do OpenGL right, but when I exit the X server, the system
> >>hangs completely. I get lots of vertical lines on the screen, but I
> >>can't even ping the computer.
> >
> >
> > you didn't specify which ati card?
>
> Sorry. Radeon 9000 Pro.
>
> >
> >
> >>Does anyone know of any conflict between using ATI's X11 driver and the
> >>Radeon console driver at the same time?
> >>
> >>I'm using kernel gentoo-2.4.25.
> >>
> >>
> >>I'm getting really sick of not being able to get new graphics cards to
> >>just work properly under Linux.

I have a 9000 Pro running under gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.5 with 3d/opengl
supported...

and I had it running with 2.4.x ages ago with gentoo-sources.

Also have a 9000 M9 Mobility in this laptop with direct rendering
running ok.

Craig

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