Re: xfree/xorg?

From: TCS (The-Central-Scrutinizer_at_p.o.b.o.x.com)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 23:34:38 -0600

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:25:31 +0100, J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:
>Larry I Smith wrote:

>> Well, it might be a Mandrake issue, rather than an xorg issue.
>> SuSE Pro v9.2 uses the linux 2.6.8 kernel, but that may not
>> have any bearing on the issue.
>>
>> I don't have any experience with Mandrake, so I don't have any
>> suggestions for you.

>I haven't seen any storm of posts that ATI drivers wouldn't work on Mandrake
>10.1, so I wouldn't really belive that it's an issue here, but a user error.

>Reading the HOWTO and follow it strictly could be a good try.

It probably wouldn't have helped. The problem turned out that I was using
the wrong agp driver. I had wrongly assumed that the driver to use with
an sis motherboard was sis_agp. Turns out that the amd athlon 64 has it's
own agp hardware and the driver to use is amd64-agp.

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