Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264164AbUDTW1t (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:27:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264535AbUDTW0W (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:26:22 -0400 Received: from twin.uoregon.edu ([128.223.214.27]:42886 "EHLO twin.uoregon.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264164AbUDTT2K (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:28:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:28:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Jaeggli X-X-Sender: joelja@twin.uoregon.edu To: Timothy Miller cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: System hang with ATI's lousy driver In-Reply-To: <4085753B.2010700@techsource.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1988 Lines: 59 On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Timothy Miller wrote: > > > 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. kernel drm + xfree86 driver will actually provide accelerated opengl support in Xwindows albiet without quite as many hardware features as the proprietary driver on all the rv2xx chipsets including the 9000 but not on the later models. kernel drm & radeonfb have been reported to not play very well with each other in other venues. vesafb is known to work in this situation though. > > > > > >>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. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/