On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 00:04, stan wrote: > > Now a philisophical question. Any ide if the gatos drivers are going to > get merged inot the mainstream XFree code?
Good question... I don't know... it sure would be nice! > I'm just thinking thta someday > (perhaps soon) I'm going to do a dselect & it's going to upgrade my X server, > which will now break things :-( Yes...be careful of this - it happens from time to time. Whenever there is an update to the Woody's XFree (xserver-xfree86), it will replace the gatos drivers with woody ones. > Oh, one final question. Any idea if the "ati" and "radeon" drivers are > diferent, or just aliases? I had radeon, but I cnaged it to ati to match > your workign example. Use "ati". it will detect and load the proper card-specific drivers (r128, radeon, etc.). It is like a meta-driver or something to that effect. Cheers, Bill
