Broken video drivers in new modular X
David Hollis
dhollis at davehollis.com
Mon Nov 21 11:47:04 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 10:22 +0100, Erwin Rol wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 02:44 -0500, Sadda Teh wrote:
> > Hi all, just writing to say that on my Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop
> > (latest BIOS) with ATI Mobility M4 video the modular X vesa and r128
> > drivers do not work properly.
>
> My Radeon locks the machine hard, meaning no network, no nothing, only
> can press the reset/power switch. I have seen previous reports here with
> the same problem, but there was talk about that AGP might be the
> problem, but i have a PCIe card (01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI
> Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] ).
> That card worked fine with the old Xorg before the switch to mod-X.
For what it's worth, the ATI Radeon R250 on my Thinkpad T42 works just fine using the xorg ati driver in modular X.
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David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com>
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