(sent twice as my group membership was weird the first time, I've resubscribed so hopefully it will be ok now!) I needing some help getting my 9000 PRO working properly (e.g. not using the vesa drivers) under RH 8 if that is possible. RH8 detects the card ok, but only has vesa drivers for it. I noticed that the CVS copy of XFree86 had 9000 support, so I grabbed a CVS copy and compiled it. mv /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X116Rold and then installed the new version I'd compiled (11th Nov). Worked fine, got nice 85Hz screens and everything was a lot quicker. Then ATi released some proper Linux drivers, so I mv'd both directories and went back to XFree86 4.2.0. It worked fine, so I tried to install the ATi drivers. In the end they failed as I've got a Powered By ATi card and those Linux drivers don't seem to support them cards. From the log: (EE) fglrx(0): board/chipset is not supported by this driver (third party board) Pah. Nvidia are much nicer than this. No worries I though, I'll go back to my old method. I mv'd the folders around again so I was using the CVS build. It boots up my login screen, and then hangs with the hourglass now! So I rpm -e'd the ATi drivers, still not joy as it hourglasses me still (I can't even kill it with the hotkeys). I try the latest CVS build, still no luck. Yet 4.2.0 still boots fine during all of this. Doh! So I need some help! All I want is some decent 2D drivers. I've got 3 options really: 1. Find what is causing the XFree86 CVS builds to hang on RH start-up. 2. Hack the ATi drivers into working. 3. Wait for XFree86 4.3! Any ideas anyone? Using 60Hz is annoying and slow so I'd like to get this sorted out. Cheers, Rich _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
