Install using vesa fails with ATI X700

[Mike Chambers]

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 19:08 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 19:06 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:37 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:30 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Okay, so a day late, but:
> > > > 
> > > > http://people.redhat.com/ajackson/ati/
> > > > 
> > > > has a snapshot build of 6.6.191.  It seems to be working okay for me,
> > > > but I'd like confirmation from a few other people before rawhiding it,
> > > > there's been a lot of churn between 6.6.3 and now.
> > > 
> > > Working fine here so far on an x1300 (as vesa currently).  Am I suppose
> > > to be using vesa or radeon in my xorg.conf with this version?
> > 
> > radeon.  The vesa driver is provided in a package named
> > xorg-x11-drv-vesa.
> 
> Except, of course, that x1300 won't work with radeon at all, thanks ATI.

Yep, still experiencing that (as in they haven't updated or helped
update teh radeon driver yet ot work with the newer cards?). 

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Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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