Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: ati-driver 8.16.20 and kernel 2.6.12
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 22:41:15
Message-Id: 431CC81F.1090402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: ati-driver 8.16.20 and kernel 2.6.12 by Benjamin Grauer
1 Benjamin Grauer wrote:
2 > thanks ducan, and i share your thoughts. But since i made the awefully
3 > bad decission to buy an ati - x800 card, i can not simply switch to
4 > nvidia... (money and stuff :()
5
6 This may not help a whole lot now, but Xorg 7.0 is slated to contain a
7 reverse-engineered, open-source driver for the latest ATI cards. It
8 doesn't work with PCIE yet, however.
9
10 Also as Chris suggested, you ought to check the various locations for
11 errors/problems before giving up -- Xorg.0.log, dmesg, your kernel config.
12
13 Donnie
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