Thinkpad, ATI, hell

I made the mistake of buying one of the `linux-ready' Lenovo Thinkpad T60's a while ago, or rather made the mistake of buying one with an ATI Mobility FireGL V5200 graphics controller and ever since I've been in ATI hell. The radeon driver crashes the X server at startup: Backtrace: 0: /usr/

Re: Thinkpad, ATI, hell

Hello, I know nothing about the ATI, since I'm a happy owner of a T60/Intel ;) On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 01:41 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > I made the mistake of buying one of the `linux-ready' Lenovo Thinkpad > T60's a while ago, or rather made the mistake of buying one with an > ATI Mobility FireG

hi list i have a problem

i have a intel celeron, dual core, when i see the file /proc/cpuinfo he show me that my processor is a INTEL CELERON CPU E1200 1.6 GHZ. i installed the debian i386 but my quenstion is, can i install the amd64debian in my machine? "for usefull the power of the 2 processor". thanks

Re: hi list i have a problem

javier melendez wrote: > i have a intel celeron, dual core, when i see the file /proc/cpuinfo > he show me that my processor is a INTEL CELERON CPU E1200 1.6 GHZ. i > installed the debian i386 but my quenstion is, can i install the > amd64debian in my machine? "for usefull the power of the 2 > pro

Re: hi list i have a problem

Hello, You don't need to use debian-amd64 in order to enable the two cores. Using 64bits brings a marginal performance improvements (a few percentages. Humans can't really make the difference). 64bits is mostly useful when you need more RAM. Switching to 64bits could raise some small issues, whi