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Wednesday, October 22, 2003

lainOS.

VideoLAN HOWTO. Should be fun :)

Monday, October 20, 2003

OK;
- I rebuilt Red Hat 9 from the ground up.
- I selected the Radeon 9000 as my video card during installation.
- I set default login to text.
- I logged in at first boot, backed up XF86Config and then modified it to include the ChipId 0x514D in the "Device" section.
- I synced a few times.
- I started X - fine.
- I set default runlevel to 5 and rebooted - fine. GUI login following reboot.
- I then ran up2date for everything.
- I then rebooted (new kernel).

Everything seems fine:
# glxinfo
display: :0.0 screen:0
direct rendering: Yes


However:
#grep Chipset /var/log/XFree86.0.log
(**) Chipset ATI Radeon 9100 QM (AGP) found
(**) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon 9100 QM (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x514d)


So, do I try and fix it to recognise a 9200, or leave it?....... more to follow, I suspect.......


Sunday, October 19, 2003

Update: the ATI Radeon 9200 driver for Linux is a royal pain in the bollocks. Having installed it as described below, everything looked rosy for a while; OpenGL screensavers were flying, the OS reported that it was using hardware acceleration etc.
However, after a while, the GUI started hanging. This seemed to be linked to Flash content, and the error I found was:
[drm:radeon_ioremapfree:mappings] *ERROR* Attempt to free NULL pointer
[drm:radeon_ioremapfree:mappings] *ERROR* Excess frees:5 frees, 4allocs

Not understanding this in the slightest, I thought I'd try removing the Radeon drivers. Uh-uh. rpm -e gave "package is not installed". rpm -i gave "package is already installed".
Feeling out of my depth a bit, and being as it's a fresh install of Red Hat, I decided to blow the whole lot away and reinstall the OS....... more to follow.......

Saturday, October 18, 2003

ATI Radeon 9200 - Getting it to work under Redhat 9.0 is a right royal bastard, I can tell you. Fortunately, this guy is bang on the money. His actual method (manually editing XF86Config and inserting the ChipId) worked fine; none of the other mentioned solutions even gave me a working X environment.

Thursday, October 16, 2003

Gmane -- Re: Releasing the Red DHCP assigned IP address, or howto do an "ipconfig release/renew" on Linux.
Of course, there's also pump if you have it installed.......

Monday, October 13, 2003

Pentium(R) 4 Processors - Optimizing the Linux* Kernel for the Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 processor. Again, holy crap.

Thursday, October 09, 2003

An article at LinuxVoodoo about Mad Hatter and the Sun Jave Desktop (see my real blog for more on that stuff). Interestingly, it will run on SuSE, not Red Hat.

Wednesday, October 08, 2003

Fink - Open Source ports for Darwin and Mac OS X.

Saturday, October 04, 2003

librenix.com - Linux distributions and kernel resources.