Date: 01 Jan 2003 22:50:53 -0800 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-RC2 informal PR: X hangups using radeon driver Message-ID: <1041490252.661.3.camel@abbey> In-Reply-To: <gsu1gs1vbz.1gs@localhost.localdomain> References: <gsu1gs1vbz.1gs@localhost.localdomain>
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On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 12:14, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > I downloaded a 5.0-RC2 ISO, checked the MD5 against a different mirror's > MD5, burned a CD, diff'ed the CD against the ISO, and installed the OS. > My first try using the full-GUI X installer failed gracefully (I forget > the details). The other two X installers didn't offer to support my > video card, so I tried the full-GUI one again. It offered something > called "ati". I'm not sure why it said "ati" rather than what my old > XF86Config used "radeon", but it seemed close enough. IIRC, it wasn't The 'ati' driver detects what type of ATI card you have and loads the appropriate driver (radeon, r128, atimisc). -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/ anholt@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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