Eben King wrote:
>My friend (call him T) has a Radeon 9000 and he's trying to get Gnome from
>Ubuntu up (XFree86 4.3). The last message in /var/log/XFree86.0.log is that
>it successfully loaded DRI, then it freezes the machine with a black screen.
>{Caps,Scroll,Num}lock don't illuminate their respective lights, and
>ctrl-alt-{backspace,F[1-6]} don't work. gdm loads, but Gnome won't.
>Actually he said:
>...
>Does anybody know what might be wrong, or have a working XFree86Config he
>could try? Should I get more details?
>
>
>
The Radeon DRI drivers are buggy. I have two boxes with Radeon 7000
based cards that do the same thing about half the time when I try
anything using DRI. (bzflag 2.x kills 'em on a regular basis) Until the
drivers stabilize, your best bet is probably a GeForce based card.
Mike
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