On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:40:13PM -0600, Brad Sims wrote: > On Thursday 18 March 2004 9:50 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > > From what I've noticed, some video cards just plain don't like > > switching between graphical and text modes and pretty much just crash > > while switching modes. > > Hrm, weird... I never had any problems with SuSE 7.3 doing this... (same hw) > and its fine for a little while after boot... (never actually timed it to see how > long it takes). > > Video card is a stately Raedon QD (ie no blazing screamer) But it is perfectly > supported > by XFree and I don't need no steenking drivers <g> > --
I have a radeon 9800. With the ati binaries it does work perfectly from X to console, switches back and forth, can change resolution, etc. I am using sid, so, the presence of the xlibmesa in fireglx was causing a lot of trouble for me. So I decided to switch to vesa (the only that worked) and removed the ati binaries. I gave up the possibility of switching back and forth (console <-> X), the possiblity of changing resolution, I got a shifted screen and a somewhat flickering screen. But my system doesn't break or require manual intervention every two days now. I wonder if there are any good cards left that are truly open to open source. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
