From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxrVz-0000eO-1f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:24:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6RJMndj016123; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:22:49 GMT Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6RJMn9K025493 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:22:49 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DxrTz-0003qY-Cz for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:22:23 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:22:23 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:22:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Nvidia problem Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:21:37 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <1f81f7e005072619284cb7e1f1@mail.gmail.com> <200507270748.10958.gentoo102004@joerg.in-berlin.de> <42E7328A.9030002@olomouc.com> <20050727175256.GC15702@no-eff-eks.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: b3dafa9c-408e-4d4d-b5a1-4a5e44fe1ef3 X-Archives-Hash: e3dc1db47aa347c2d679057c2402c78d Sami Samhuri posted <20050727175256.GC15702@no-eff-eks.com>, excerpted below, on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:52:56 -0700: >> However, I got it working with an ATI Radeon 9200 SE and the xorg native >> drivers the other day. It's /nice/ in KDE. That was running the >> xorg-x11-6.8.99.15 6.9/7.0 snapshot build, with unified framebuffer on a >> dual 2048x1736 monitor layout. > > I thought I would do the same, except after switching to an amd64 machine > any attempt to use my Radeon 9200 SE causes a hard lock up as soon as I > type 'startx'. No ssh'ing in from another box, no ctl-alt-bs, the only way > out is a hard reset. For now I'm using 2 GeForces, but I would rather > switch to the ATI. Did yours just work 'out of the box'? Pretty much, yes. I had been running an NVidia, then switched to an ATI 7500 (IIRC), then eventually to the 9200 SE. The switch from NVidia to the 7500 was a bit rough, as I had to convert my XF86Config from the format NVidia's proprietary drivers used for their options, to the equivalent XFree standard format, with a few Radeon driver specific options. However, everything was documented in the manpages, and since then, the upgrades have been trivial, to card, monitors, and xfree/xorg, all three. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list