Re: System hang with ATI's lousy driver

From: Jan De Luyck
Date: Thu Apr 22 2004 - 00:20:53 EST


On Tuesday 20 April 2004 21:28, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

> kernel drm + xfree86 driver will actually provide accelerated opengl
> support in Xwindows albiet without quite as many hardware features as the
> proprietary driver on all the rv2xx chipsets including the 9000 but not
> on the later models.
>
> kernel drm & radeonfb have been reported to not play very well with each
> other in other venues. vesafb is known to work in this situation though.

I have that particular setup running quite satisfactory now for a few months,
using a Radeon 9000 Mobile chip. No problems at all.

Jan

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