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Does anyone know of anyproblems with the 64meg version of the ATI Radeon card? Some freinds of mine have been saying that the lunix kernal doesn't know how to support anything over 32 megs.
I don't know if it is the kernel or the latest version of XFree86 which would be the main consideration. Although you could use a lower aceleration of the card, I don't know if you will get the best out of the card unless it is the same chipset used by other rad cards, just more mem.
Under Mandrake's x program I only find one version of the Radeon card, which does not work, and I've also tried installing RedHat and had the same problem.....is there a default driver to use? I not real concered about performance, I just want to mess around with Lunix and learn it......
I tried the "FBDev" driver...I couldn't find anyother driver for it on the terms of a generic driver....I wish I found one. Could it possibly be my monitor? What happens is that I loose the video signal after the Xfree86 or freex876 program....it was the same in both RedHat 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0.....
i was just checking out the ati radeon site; it doesn't look like they have much driver support for linux. they're more than happy to supply all the specs and technical data you would need to write a driver, but they have no interest in doing it for you.
you might want to see if there's another ati driver that might work.
I did try the other ati drivers and I'm not even close enough to be smart to make a driver....I'm using the default version that comes with the installations of both of those distributions.....
When tring some of the ati drivers I get an error and it restarts the computer....
I have a 64 MB DDR ATI RADEON video card. I have not had problems with it running in Mandrake 8.0.
When installing a fresh copy of Mandrake 8.1b4, with all options, I chose to try the ext3 file system(jfs). During install, the testing of the video card worked fine, but then XWindows crashed everytime I tried to login.
could you post the driver section of you /etc/XF86Config file? i'm sure all our ati users who have had trouble with the card would like to take a look at it.
if you guys are still having problems with this have a look at dri.sourceforge.net. direct rendering must be enabled in your kernel, and it must be specified in your XF86Config file. The name of the correct driver to name in that file is "ati". also the support for a radeon card in the kernel must be compiled as a module (radeon.o). if you still have problems email me, and ill help you fix it.
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