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Debian on AMD64

Posted Dec 3, 2004 10:34 UTC (Fri) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
Parent article: Debian on AMD64

The install of Ubuntu's AMD64 version on my new Athlon64 seems to have gone well, except I
have no X yet. When I bought the computer, I bought the cheapest ATI video card in the store,
figuring that had the best chance of being supported by open source drivers. It is a Radeon
9250.

I haven't yet checked to see why X didn't start.

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Debian on AMD64

Posted Dec 5, 2004 19:53 UTC (Sun) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]

Okay, I've got X (with the Software Libre XFree86 drivers) and audio (with the Software Libre ALSA drivers) working. The prism54 802.11g drivers worked right out of the box!! (They are also Software Libre except for this funny firmware thing.)

I'm very pleased. The #ubuntu channel is friendly, googling for my bugs was easy, and this machine is FAST. Whoo!