XFree86 vertical refresh rate.

M.W. Chang mwchang
Mon May 17 11:59:43 PDT 2004


> If it's not inappropriate to ask, why are you doing a trial of RH8? It 
> is 2 (almost 3) versions old now. And Red Hat 8 wasn't the most stable 

I will download Fedora later. I just want to play around with RedHat. 
Right now, I am still using the good old COL 3.1. :)

> release they ever produced. RH9 is far better.  For the most part, the 
> XFree supplied ATI Radeon driver should work fine. I'd try it rather 

Redhat 8 detected the brand and model of my Radeon card, However, it 
didn't install any Radeon driver. It chose the VESA one. Must I install 
Fedora to see the "supplied ATI Radeon driver". Or should I grab a 
driver from ATI's website?

> than just thinking the choice is between either vesa or the closed ATI 
> binary drivers.




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