On Tue, 2006-14-03 at 16:51 -0800, centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> CentOS 4.2 does NOT work with ATI! Period! not x86-64 and x86.. X
> is completely screwed up. I hope that this will be fixed with
> 4.3. I had to switch to an nVidia card that works perfectly.
Yeah, that's what I'm discovering. I wish I had heard these reports
earlier before slapping an ATI card in.
Switching to another card, such as one from nvidia, is an option of last
resort.
> This is not just CentOS, it's X. I had the same problem with
> Ubuntu, but SuSE worked perfectly without any problem, they have
> newer drivers.
Ok. Good to know.
> I tried with the drivers from X and from ATI, same.
>
> If you can live with it, you can edit Xorg.conf and change the
> driver to VESA, but it's ugly.
Yep, that's what I'm going to do. Degraded 2D performance isn't a
problem. It's a server, so reliability is more important for me.
Thanks for replying.
Regards,
Ranbir
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Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Linux 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 i686 GNU/Linux
10:06:57 up 3:36, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.23, 0.24
