[Lust] Re: Lust Digest, Vol 7, Issue 1

[Nathen R Clark]

I'm currently running Xorg on all my boxes, it pretty much is the same 
code as XFree but I personally find it to be a little more smooth and 
the built in radeon driver under 64bit is rock solid no probs at all (no 
3d on the latest cards ofc)

As far as kernel modules from both ati and Nvidia goes you don't need to 
do anything special if it's just a recompile adding/removing models etc. 
the only time you'll need to reinstall the driver is if you change a 
kernel version 2.6.7-r9 to 2.6.7-r10 for example and that doesn't happen 
that often at least for me.


Nathen



Dylan the Hippy Wabbit wrote:

>Hi All,
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>>We are here but do not have much to say ....
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>Oh, that's OK then.
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>Tony wrote:-
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>>How hard does your system lock?  How do you recover?
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>Pretty badly.  I'm not convinced it's a kernel panic, since the keyboard
>leds don't flash.  On the other hand I've not found any graceful way to
>recover.  X won't zap with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace,  and I can't switch to a
>virtual console.  I've tried switching to a VC, and then logging in and
>running a shutdown command 'blind,' in case it's just the display
>processor that's locked, but that doesn't work either.  I don't have
>another box handy to SSH in with.  I end up having to switch off.  (OUCH!)
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>>Is the system stable without the 3D drivers?
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>It's fine until I run an OpenGL program, and under certain conditions even
>then.  If I've just started X I can run anything, but if I've been 'doing
>stuff' then the chances of trouble increase.  I had thought that this
>indicated a RAM problem, but now I think that reinitialising X is the
>significant point.
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>Nathen asked:-
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>>Debian isn't my cup of tea but what driver are you using with the ati 
>>card the one provided by X or 3rd party ?
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>It's the DRI module in the kernel.  ATI's driver download site only
>mentions the newer models.
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>As I recall, I had no problems (well, an albino penquin in Tuxracer) with
>XFree 4.0, but 4.1 and now 4.3 have given trouble.  Significantly, the DRI
>module format changed as from 4.1.
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>Does anyone know if XOrg has diverged enough to be worth a try yet?  It
>looks like we'll all be headed that way soon anyway.
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>A couple of you mentioned Nvidia.  Squaring their proprietary driver with
>Debian's strict policy makes it a lot of extra trouble to install.  I
>jumped through all the hoops once, but then thought that I didn't want to
>mess about like that every time I updated the kernel.
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>Thanks for your suggestions anyway.
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