Re: Screen flickering on laptop with ATI Radeon mobility

In comp.os.linux.admin jmarkotic <jmarkoti@fina.hr> wrote:

> Graphic card is ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 (32Mb), and monitor is capable
> of 1400x1050 in which mode I run it (it gives clearest picture in that
> mode).

> I'm running RH8.0, XFree 4.2.

> Section "Device"
> # no known options
> Identifier "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500"
> Driver "radeon"
> VendorName "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500"
> BoardName "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500"
> #BusID
> EndSection

This is bit odd, there is no driver called "radeon" in XFree86 4.2. Are
you using the binary drivers provided by ATI perhaps?

I noticed this part in the driver status files at www.xfree86.org

4.3.0:

Accelerated support is provided for Mach64, Rage, Rage 128 and
Radeon chips by the "ati" driver, as is unaccelerated support for
all of the others except the Mach8 and some early Mach32 chips.


Seems to me you be best served by upgrading.

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