> X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ofeeley owned process doing -bs > From: ofeeley@yahoo.com > > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Dave Reed wrote: > [snip] > > > would people that have ATI Radeon 7500's working without hitch be so kind > > > as to post: > > > 1. XF86 version > > > 2. kernel version > > > 3. other version information that is, they feel, necessary to achieve 3D > > > acceleration with this card? > [snip] > > > > Take a look at the list archive (see one of the headers I left in > > above). I and a couple others posted fairly explicit instructions to > > this list in the last few months (probably January and Feburary). > > > Hi Dave, > thanks for the suggestion. I did indeed search the list before asking > this question and found your, J.Haywards and M.Harris's posts. The kernel > you appeared to be dealing with was a 2.4.9-13. Since then up2date has > brought the kernel up to 2.4.9-31. I am having trouble getting a > non-crashing X-server after following the steps in the mail list. I could > run e.g. glxgears or TuxRacer. TuxRacer would work for about 1 minute and > then crash. > > So, my question was not a lazy, ignorant one. I was hoping to find out if > anyone was running with 2.4.9-31 (or rawhide's 2.4.18-0.16 which produces > identical behaviour). > > Thanks, > -Oisin Feeley I've been using kernel-2.4.17-0.6 (got from rawhide) a while ago and XFree86-4.2.0-0.6.1 (got from mharris' ftp site). It's worked flawlessly so I haven't bothered to update anything. If I were you I'd try the rpms from skipjack (or maybe install all of skipjack if this is your home machine). Dave
