Please excuse my question if it has already been answered: Will the Online Update option in YaST2 get me the updated XFree86 4.2 and SAX2 rpm's ? steve At 02:24 PM 2/14/2002, M. Clark wrote:
On Thursday 14 February 2002 14:01, KMcLauchlan@chrysalis-its.com wrote:
<rant> What IS the deal with low refresh rate and no 3D? ATI Radeon has been out for quite a while, now,
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Radeon and Radeon 7500 are two different things. The Radeon 7500 has only been out a few months. ATI, like many other companies, reuses trademarks because they have market recognition. This confuses and sometimes screws the user, but has nothing to do with SuSE or Red Hat.
The low refresh rate I was referring to is how the framebuffer device is setup. That, I believe, is part of the kernel, and has nothing to do with SuSE. The framebuffer is something that alllows limited high resolution use of a new card that does not yet have XFree86 support. Again, not a SuSE or Red Hat issue, and nothing to do with ATI.
BTW, XFree86 4.2, which supports the Radeon 7500 (and 8500), just came out a few _days_ ago. It only took SuSE a couple of days to get SuSE specific RPMs (including sax2) up for downloading. That's damn good service.
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