x86_64 and Radeon 9600

[mark at harddata.com]

> You'll likely be able to use "vesa" in the interim (and that's why
> graphics worked during the installation--it uses a simple vesa driver
> for the graphical install).  I have the same hardware (almost exactly),
> but with a Radeon 9200...the video card is detected but it goes black
> when I try to use the radeon drive, and only a reboot can bring it back
> to life.  Anyway, vesa works for me, though it is tragically slow at
> 1600x1400.
>
> I would be curious why the radeon driver (which works fine on my Athlon
> XP at home with the same card) fails on my x86_64 box at the office,
> though.
>
Do you have a Radeon 9200 or 9200SE? What motherboard? The AMD chipset and
the 9200SEs don't get along but we where getting no video at post. I
assume you get farther than that. If you have a 9200SE sell it to a
windows user and buy a 9200. The SE is a really cheaper video card.