More Radeon 9800 pro questions

[Atro Tossavainen]

> I built a new XFree86 using the instructions from the October threads,  
> and still no support,

Do a "startx" from the text console and post the contents of
/var/log/XFree86.0.log afterwards.

> but i was surfing ATI's website and came across this:
> "http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon- 
> linux.html?type=linux&prodType=graphic&prod=productsLINUXdriver&submit.x 
> =14&submit.y=14" could that be any help to get my new video card  
> functioning?

Plenty if your computer is an x86.  The drivers ATI provides are binary-
only releases for x86 Linux.  In other words, they are of no use to any-
body running Linux on a PowerPC based computer.

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