Status report
I’m back in Graz since Monday. I had to do a big update on my workstation (besides the regular security-updates). Running with kernel 2.6.2 as my server for 87 days uptime without any problems *knock on wood* I updated to 2.6.8.1. With Jimmy’s ATI-Howto and debian-packages from Flavio Stanchi 3D-acceleration with my “ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]” works like a charme. Now I’m searching for some (free!) games to play for relaxing. Suggestions are welcome :-)
grml: version 0.05 is waiting for being pressed on a CD. Of course there’s still lot of stuff on my TODO-list. I relaunched the website of grml including a RSS-feed. Michael Gebetsroither joined the grml-team. Michael is also member of Security Treff Graz and works on stuff like WOLK, grsec and he will provide cryptoconf for grml. Michael’s work at grml will be doing security- and kernel-stuff. Welcome, Michael!
BTW: There exists a new linux magazine called Linux+. It’s publisher is the same as the one from haking9.
September 9th, 2004 at 22:31
Hello. Congratratulations to your blog, it’s great to read and really useful.
I’ve purchased an ATI card (Radeon 9250) some days ago, too. As mentioned by Flavio Stanchi, the fglrx drivers don’t support DVI :-(
So I finally changed back to the radeon-drivers of XFree86 (there i don’t get DRI-support, although everything is right with the kernel and the config-File).
I didn’t know the fglrx drivers for debian from Stanchi, but simply converted the original ATI rpm-package with alien, which worked (i just had to force dpkg to overwrite 2 or 3 files from some xfree-packages). Let’s hope ATI improves its support of linux…
September 9th, 2004 at 23:10
I really hate the DRI/DRM stuff because of it’s complexity. Debugging errors can be really painfull due to it’s modularity. :-(
As already written via ICQ (just for the archive[tm]) – I do have DVI-support:
$ grep DVI /var/log/XFree86.0.log
Connector — DVI-I
DDC Type — DVI_DDC
As written on Flavio Stanchi’s webpage under “Bugs and Workarounds” DVI seems to work only with ATI’s 9600 cards. :-(