> > You need to have at least 2.6.7-rc2, or the radeon is unusably flickery. > > I've attached my XF86Config-4. Note that I have DRI disabled, since it > > (iirc) makes pmdisk fail to resume. > unfortunately this has brought me no closer to having X on my system. what > framebuffer do you use? i have deselected all but the ofvideo driver. are you > maybe using the radeon one? are you using any non-standard kernel options?
WOOHOO!!! the debian default of "video=ofonly" is what is breakign things! using the latest 2.6.7 kernel with the new radeonfb framebuffer (DCC or whatever its called, turned on) i now have an X server! thank you to everybody who helped me with this... i will now try and sort out all the other problems and mayeb write up how i installed everything. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/
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