XFree86 vertical refresh rate.

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, M.W. Chang wrote:
> > 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. :)

old yes.  good?  i never found it to be all that great.  2.4 was a diamond
in the rough.

> > 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?

Redhat (nee Fedora) only ships XFree86.  If you want 3rd party drivers,
you're on your own.  I'm pretty sure that RH falls back to the crappy VESA
driver when it can't figure out what else to use.  IN other words, your
videocard is unsupported.

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

In RH8, most likely.

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