Re: System hang with ATI's lousy driver

From: Joel Jaeggli
Date: Tue Apr 20 2004 - 14:03:52 EST


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?

> 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.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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