Re: System hang with ATI's lousy driver

From: Timothy Miller (miller_at_techsource.com)
Date: 04/20/04

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    Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:08:43 -0400
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>

    Joel Jaeggli wrote:
    > 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?

    Sorry. Radeon 9000 Pro.

    >
    >
    >>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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