[CentOS] ATI X300 on CentOS 4

Wed Mar 15 15:23:28 UTC 2006
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>

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On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 10:06:53AM -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-14-03 at 20:33 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> > ATI support on Xorg is very iffy at the moment. I have been having problems
> > all over when I have any ATI based card.
> 
> That sucks.
> 
> What's really irritating is that it was fine for several months, and
> then all of a sudden the screen started to blank out.

Yup. Worked without a problem on 4.1

> > I suppose it will get sorted out by 4.3. At least I hope it will.
> 
> Hopefully.  But, in the meantime, I'm going to switch to the vesa
> driver.  I'm not concerned about 2D performance since it's a server -
> it's reliability that's important.

Why do you need X on a server ? Just run it on runlevel 3 and be
happy.

> Thank you very much for replying.  At least I have a better
> understanding of what's going on.

Yeah. We can all cry together now.

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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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