[plug] OS Radeon drivers

chris caston at arach.net.au
Sat Jul 31 13:42:46 WST 2004


Hello,

I have an issue with KDE on Debian Sid where it often will freeze up
when using 
alt-tab. At this point I cannot restart X or switch to a virtual
terminal. 

I can still do limited things on the K menu like log-out. 

I have been told that there is a bug on the ATI driver for Radeon 9200se
and that the open source driver (while lacking some features due to IP
reasons) is much more stable.

Does anyone here know how I can switch over to the open source driver. 

I usually don't care much about graphics drivers but this freezing up is
really 
any issue. 

The XF86 config I'm using was generated using Knoppix.Section "Device"
is as follows: 

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
# sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards
        #Option     "sw_cursor"
        #Option     "hw_cursor"
        #Option     "NoAccel"
        #Option     "ShowCache"
        #Option     "ShadowFB"
        #Option     "UseFBDev"
        #Option     "Rotate"
        Identifier  "Card0"
# The following line is auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config
        Driver      "vesa"
        VendorName  "All"
        BoardName   "All"
#       BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Thanks for your help.

regards,

Chris Caston




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