On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: >Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:41:52 -0700 (PDT) >From: Alex Deucher <agd5f@xxxxxxxxx> >To: xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Reply-To: xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Subject: Re: RedHat 9 & Radeon 9000 > >you might also try switching the driver from "radeon" to "ati" Changing the driver from "radeon" to "ati" will have zero change whatsoever. The "ati" driver is not a Radeon driver. The "ati" driver is merely a wrapper around all 3 ATI drivers: atimisc - Mach64 and older r128 - Rage 128 radeon - Radeon and FireGL hardware If you use the "ati" driver wrapper, all it does is autodetect the video card, and then autoload the correct driver, which in this case is the "radeon" driver. Personally, despite anyone else's recommendations, I recommend people to use the proper driver and not rely on wrapper drivers such as "ati", because there are cases in which the wrapper has caused problems for people in the past and using the correct driver to begin with works properly. Since the wrapper is not actually a driver, there is no way that using the wrapper (ati) will work for someone and the actual driver (radeon) wont. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
