ati9600 & wide-screen notebooks

[Peter Klein]

Am Don, den 06.05.2004 schrieb Jos Vos um 10:57:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:49:31AM +0200, Peter Klein wrote:
> 
> > radeon (generic) - was one of my choices ... didn't work either
> > (other attempts: VESA Modes, ATI 350 series, ATI 9600)
> 
> So you did try the "vesa" driver?
YES
It doesn't matter what I choose... even the 640x480 resolution (which
shows me the menu for selecting my graphics hardware (why does this
work? framebuffer device?) kills the computer (only hard reset will
bring it back)
> 
> FWIW: my ASUS M6K *non*-widescreen works fine with both the VESA
> and the ATI-proprietary driver, but I only tried that with RHEL3
> and XFree86.
> 
AFAIK XFree86 is not the standard X Server for the upcoming FC2?!
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