On Jo, 09 feb 12, 19:55:48, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > * From: deloptes <delop...@yahoo.com> > * Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:25:16 +0100 > > ... by installing the ati non-free. It's tricky but working well, > > I've configured many pc's and notebooks with ati ... > > In http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary#Supported_Devices the link for > Squeeze > lists many Mobility Radeon adapters. Unfortunately none are here. > > root@whiterock:~# lspci | grep VGA > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP > 2x > (rev 02) > > What is a Rage?
Wikipedia helps in such cases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Rage#Mobility > With nothing further to suggest whether this adapter is supported I > resorted to empiricism. The instructions in > http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary lead here. > > root@whiterock:~# modprobe -r radeon drm > root@whiterock:~# aticonfig --initial > aticonfig: No supported adapters detected > > Is this reliable evidence that the proprietary driver won't work > for this adapter? > > If so, is purging packages fglrx-control and fglrx-driver enough > to avoid any problems when another driver is tried? Any advice > about leaving or removing the linux-headers package? > > What are the alternatives to ati proprietary? By decreasing preference > xserver-xorg-video-ati, xserver-xorg-video-geode, xserver-xorg-video-vesa? > > Any point in trying xserver-xorg-video-radeon? There surely is a list of supported chipsets somewhere, but it seems to me like this card is supported by xserver-xorg-video-r128. See also the description of xserver-xorg-video-ati ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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