ATI Radeon 9200 -- should I install ATI driver?

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at welho.com
Fri Nov 21 00:13:59 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 01:49, G Henry wrote:
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> On Thursday 20 Nov 2003 11:34 pm, Fotios Nastos wrote:
> > So far my Fedora Core 1 installation is working flawlessly.  My smoothest
> > Linux ride yet.  Anyway, I'm trying to decide whether to bother installing
> > the proprietary ATI drivers from www.ati.com.  I have an ATI Radeon 9200.
> > Are there any risks with installing the proprietary driver, and removing
> > the default Mesa files?
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> I have freezing issues. 2 hrs after boot everyday system freezes with Oops: 
> errors etc. So no don't

Not *that* bad on my system (with ATI Radeon 9100, ATI binary drivers)
but occasionally locks up, on my box the lockups seem to be caused only
by GL-screensavers.
	
	- Panu -





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