Dual 1G and Radeon 7500

[Dan Burcaw]

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 14:28, Jeremy Mann wrote:
> 
> Well after days of scratching my head, I finally have a dual kernel I can
> boot too. I did some surfing and found Ben's source tree, compiled it and
> WHAMMO, it worked.
> 
> Now onto my 2nd problem, X with the Radeon 7500. Right now it works in
> 8bit color. All other bit depths, I get weird orange and green halves of
> the screen and the mouse is a BIG box. I have to SSH in from another
> computer and reboot the machine. In 8 bit color depth, when I go to Exit
> from either window manager, X locks up and again I have to SSH in and
> reboot.
> 
> What is the status of this card with YDL 2.3? Will it ever be supported?
> Should I just trash the card and buy an ATI Rage128? Thanks for your
> thoughts....

Umm.. what's the problem?  I have a dual 1ghz with the 7500 and
everything works fine... make sure you use the kernel argument:

video=radeon:dfp