On 12/18/06, Tim Howard <tdhoward@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/18/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tim, > I would suggest not using NVidia drivers with an ATI Radeon graphics adapter. > > - Mark LOL, oops... I meant ATI. <blush> -TimH
I thought so, but hey - you never know! ;-) Now, why do you need the ATI driver vs. just using the Xorg radeon driver in the kernel? What are you doing that requires either 3D accelleration, which may or may not not work with that version of the 9200 anyway, or composite/SVideo outputs. Those are the only reasons I know to use the ATI driver. I have two 9200-based machines I use as MythTV front-ends so on those two machines I use ati-drivers. On my AMD64 desktop that I do music on (well, supposedly it's music...) I use the radeon driver: mark@lightning ~ $ lsmod | grep radeon radeon 109600 2 drm 73448 3 radeon mark@lightning ~ $ If you can stick with the driver in the kernel then you will find updating kernels in the future to be far easier. Often a new kernel comes out and the ATI driver doesn't show up right away so you have to wait, etc. - Mark
