[Sderby] re:RH9 trouble

[Mike Hemstock]

On Wednesday 05 November 2003 18:18, Ian Spratt wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > as per my previous post, you will know that i received RH9 as a present
> > - tried it once and reverted to RH7.2, since then I have bought another
> > 256mb for my box and tried again - at the same time bringing my 3D
> > Prophet 4500 card out of retirement. RH9 now runs fine, but I am having
> > alsorts of problems installing the Kyro drivers from powervr.com.
> > downloaded the i686 rpm OK and installed, but on the accompanying
> > instructions I am completely stuck on the XF86 configuration (or maybe
> > scared to death!!) - I have followed the "easy" instructions - but
> > either get no X on boot - or the system just hangs. This is no doubt
> > through pilot error.......hhheeeelllpppp!. stuck with VESA driver at the
> > moment (boring).
>
> I have one of these cards, and i have *never* been able to get 3D
> acceleration working with it, under debian, suse or redhat, with both
> standard vendor supplied kernels or custom compiled ones.
>
> as soon as i can afford it, i'm gonna buy an nvidia geforce card.

As a side note, I recon you should give Red Hat the bullet, since Red Hat 
have!!!

Mike.