[FR] ATI driver 8.39.4

[mtlagm at gmail.com]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq wrote:

> "Works for me" on my i686 kernel, but since I am using an  "ATI Mobility
> Radeon X1600" (Chipset = 0x71c5) it seems it is not "officially"
> supported by the driver, since I get an ugly message in he bottom right
> corner that says "AMD testing use only. Unsupported hardware". (Does
> anybody know how to remove that message, btw?).
> 
> Anyway, it's working beautifully and now I no longer need to use the
> "vesa" driver :D.

Is this a laptop?  Have you succeeded to hibernate reliably
for more than a few times?

I'm using the ATI driver on a Compaq Presario v5000 and,
unless I run the X11 driver without loading the kernel module,
suspend breaks sooner or later.  Of course, without the kernel
module comes no 3D, so back to free module.

Mihai