The better choice for linux systems will be Nvidia (latest drivers [closed-source] support 7400,7800 & 7900
P.S. That's my opinion :) В Втр, 11/04/2006 в 09:49 +0100, Peter Karlsson пишет: > Kelly Clowers: > > Your mail came out almost unreadable: > > > On 4/10/06, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi!>> The graphics > > card in my Debian machine died a couple of weeks ago, and> I had to buy a > > new one. I ended up with a ATI Radeon X1300, since I> have had good > > experiences with ATI cards and Debian before.>> 0000:01:00.0 VGA > > compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 7146> > > 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device > > 7166>> But it didn't work. Neither XFree86 from Sarge nor Xorg from> > > backports.org find the card, so I'm currently using the "vesa" driver,> > > which isn't very optimal. Is there any version of X that works with> > > X1300?>> I tried downloading ATI's drivers, but they give an error while > > trying> to build the module.>> make.sh: line 1: gcc-2.9: command not > > found> make.sh: line 54: [: !=: unary operator expected> ATI module > > generator V 2.0> ==========================> initializing...> > > cleaning...> patching 'highmem.h'...> probing for VMA API versi! > on...> check results are inconsistent!!!> none of the probed versions did > succeed.> aborting module build.>> --> \\// Peter - > http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ > > As Vitaliy said, the ATI binaries do not support r5xx chips (X1xxx)and > > unfortunately, neither do the open source drivers. > > Seehttp://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon for details (bottom of > > thepage). > > Ok, I guess I have to wait for ATI to update their drivers, then. :-( Or > switch the card over to the Windows box, which has an older, supported, > ATI card. > > -- > \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ > >
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