From: cybersean3000 at domain yahoo.com
Date: Sun 02 Dec 2001 - 19:44:11 GMT
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On 2 Dec 2001, at 17:17, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:06:25AM +0000, Paul Kelly wrote:
>
> > > basically, with the new powerbooks:
> > > X is screwy (the radeon fb + X drivers aren't quite finished. 4.2.0 should
> > > do it)
> >
> >
> > The XFree86 4.1.0 radeon driver doesn't recognise the chip so I've only
> > tried with the fbdev driver so far. The colours are messed up and it's
> > slow. I'm in the process of grabbing the latest pre-4.2.0 source from
> > CVS and I'll give it a go when I have time.
>
> Does it have the Radeon Mobility chipset ? A friend of mine just brought an
> Inspiron 4100 with that and she's rather upset that she can't put Linux on
> it. Mind you, she was more upset when it crashed using the fbdev driver and
> crashed even in text mode. I ran memtest on it a couple of times and in each
> case it hung after 1m42s so then she was even more upset when I told her her
> shiny new notebook was kaput. Luckily enough the guy from Dell support
> didn't give any grief - told him memtest hung it, he asked that we switch
> the memory module from one socket to the other, memtest still hung it, so
> the man from Dell (Monte ?) is on the way with a new mainboard and
> reinstalling Windows was never even mentioned, to my surprise. I told her to
> ask could he bring a mainboard with an nVidai chipset instead of the Radeon,
> but she wimped out :-)
>
> So, is she likely to be a happy camper following the imminent release of
> XFree86 4.2.0 ?
>
>
>
>
> Niall
>
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