[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Nvidia problem

[Duncan]

Sami Samhuri posted <20050727175256.GC15702@××××××××××.com>, excerpted
below,  on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:52:56 -0700:

>> However, I got it working with an ATI Radeon 9200 SE and the xorg native
>> drivers the other day.  It's /nice/ in KDE.  That was running the
>> xorg-x11-6.8.99.15 6.9/7.0 snapshot build, with unified framebuffer on a
>> dual 2048x1736 monitor layout.
>
> I thought I would do the same, except after switching to an amd64 machine
> any attempt to use my Radeon 9200 SE causes a hard lock up as soon as I
> type 'startx'. No ssh'ing in from another box, no ctl-alt-bs, the only way
> out is a hard reset. For now I'm using 2 GeForces, but I would rather
> switch to the ATI. Did yours just work 'out of the box'?

Pretty much, yes.  I had been running an NVidia, then switched to an ATI
7500 (IIRC), then eventually to the 9200 SE.  The switch from NVidia to
the 7500 was a bit rough, as I had to convert my XF86Config from the
format NVidia's proprietary drivers used for their options, to the
equivalent XFree standard format, with a few Radeon driver specific
options.  However, everything was documented in the manpages, and since
then, the upgrades have been trivial, to card, monitors, and xfree/xorg,
all three.

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