Archive for March 31st, 2004
It seems that I was correct in my assumptions about Linux’s kernel motherboard drivers. I installed Fedora Core 1 onto my Athlon box. which has a Radeon 9000. Downloaded and installed ATI’s binary drivers configured it for large frame buffer mode. Started up X and VIOLA! it worked. Granted this is on 15″ panels at [ READ MORE ]
The Matrox G550 dual head video card arrived on schedule yesterday and I swapped it out with the Radeon last night. Downloaded the DRI Project’s latest CVS source of XFree86, configed it to build drivers for Matrox cards, made it and installed it over my 4.3.0.2 install. Started X and it came up just fine [ READ MORE ]