Posts by blaps

Quote: Originally posted by gsferrari The worst part is that it is a toshiba and the wireless card doesnt even show up in the lspci Have you ever had it working with any distro or doze?

Quote: Originally posted by gsferrari I tried two versionf of Knoppix...both detected my touchpad just fine. Both however failed to detect my wireless card. Both dont allow me to change the screen resolution. This...

You'll hit brick walls quite a few time. Don't dispair, there is a huge amount of info in the newsgroup achives, google, mailing list archives and of course, irc. Don't be put off by rude l337 d00dz, they're everywhere. If you want to...

It's definitely a version problem. The current DRI binaries want you to run a pre-release of XFree86 4.4. The mailing list has other people hitting this problem. Apparently the develops have merged some stuff from 4.4, and now people...

Yes, I did the proper things. X won't start with the DRI drivers installed. The error listed isn't that rare looking at google. I know 4.3 is current, but look at the errors again: compiled for 4.3.99.12, module version = 6.5.3. Looks...

The DRI option was a failure. It looks like their binaries are for XFree 4.4. . Quote: (II) Module ati: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.99.12, module version = 6.5.3 Module class:...

They were just the weeny window that comes up. I'm very unimpressed with the stability of this machine now. It's worse than any windows version I've ever had to endure.

So this DRI package means I should remove ATI's drivers? What kind of figures would I get out of the DRI package?

I guess not: Quote: [dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.1.1 but version 1.5.0 or newer is needed. [dri] Disabling DRI. It was the following up of this version business that made me retry the ATI drivers. Or was...

Aussie, it's about 21M for workstation V4. I've never worried about the manual, though I have a local PDF copy (5.7M).