[plug] OS Radeon drivers

[Russell Steicke]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 01:42:46PM +0800, chris wrote:
> 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. 

My laptop has this chipset:

$ sudo lspci
...
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
...
$ 

And has this Device in XF86Config:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Generic Video Card"
        Driver          "radeon"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
        VideoRam        32768
EndSection

radeon(4x) says that the radeon driver is for both your and my chipsets.

However, you implied that you're using a proprietary ATI driver.  That
doesn't appear to be the case: you're using the vesa driver, which is
for generic video cards.  I suppose it can't hurt to try the other
driver anyway.



> 
> 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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