Friday, November 25, 2005

radeon driver broken

Today I found that unfortunately the radeon driver is again broken for my machine. Immediately when the X server is started, the whole machine crashes. I first switched to the vesa driver but due to the fact that I need a dual head setup I installed the proprietary fglrx driver again. After some fiddling I got it running. After all it's a pity that many hardware vendors do not publish specs to allow implementing a stable open source driver. I still hope this will change when Linux gets more and more market share.

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