On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 18:43 +0100, kj wrote: > Well, I used to have a Radeon 7000, which was fully supported under X, > and that worked beautifully, until they came up with this randr stuff, > and threw out support for dual screens on the radeon driver without > providing a working alternative (what were they thinking?). After much > trouble, I gave up and bought an nVidia card, which has worked well so > far. But now they dished out new desktops at work, the machines are > under support contracts, so I'm not allowed to tinker with the insides, > and they come with this new ATI card. > > > I don't need fancy 3D and have often regretted that they put such an > > ill-supported card in my laptop... > > > I'm not concerned with 3D, but 2D acceleration had better work.
My work machine has an HD 2600 XT, and works ok (not flawlessly - the mouse pointer sometimes screws up a bit) with the free radeon driver - and it claims to support the HD 2400 XT too. It did take a bit of fiddling around with the config to make it go, though. I'm using dual screens, with xrandr - it's quite cool, I can rotate one of my screens for portrait mode when I like :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
