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Mage
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Apr 10, 2001, 02:45 PM
 
Well, i'm using a G4 450MHz, 640MB RAM, and an ATI Radeon.... but my problem is that Linux does not like my radeon... and the kernel has no support in in ones i'm booting.... so i dont even get a command line interface console... blah blah blah... any suggestions?



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Jun 3, 2001, 06:24 PM
 
Well... anyone have anything to say about Radeon support for PPC Linux Distributions?
     
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Jun 4, 2001, 12:12 PM
 
Originally posted by Mage:
<STRONG>Well... anyone have anything to say about Radeon support for PPC Linux Distributions? </STRONG>
A little info would help. What distro are you using? what version of XFree86? does your distro claim to support radeon?

You need XFree86 4.0.2 or later to support radeon.
     
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Jun 23, 2001, 11:46 AM
 
xfree is the least of my worries.... all ppc linux distro's i cant even get a Command Line Interface... all that comes up is some buffer hex and i can hear it booting.... but thats it. blarg!

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