Re: [xine-user] xine on amd64 nforce3 and ATI Radeon 9600 SE

[Alexandru C. <ale...@wa...>]

> That's because your drives appear to be /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd, not
> /dev/hdb.

I'm positive the DVD drives (the ROM and the writer) are on hdb and hda 
respectively because I can mount them (although the writer was not recognized 
until I upgraded to the 2.6.9 kernel).

I also learned that the ide-generic kernel module does not support DMA. The 
driver I need for that is ata-piix.

I'll try removing ide-generic from the /etc/modules file and replacing it with 
ata_piix see what happens.

As far as the video card is concerned, I am using the ati driver. Is that OK 
or is there perhaps another module that I should load?

Proprietary ATI drivers exist for Radeon 9600 from this site
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html
packaged for Debian and all.

Problem is they're for 386 and I'm on amd64. The binaries won't work of 
course, so I tried compiling the sources on my system, but one of the scripts 
provided by this site is also expecting a 32bit system, so it refuses to 
compile the source, even though I can't see an a priori reason why the source 
wouldn't compile just as well on my system.

So, is the ati module OK for a Radeon 9600?

Alex.