Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-29 Thread Han Soo Chang
Thanks for your advice. 2012/4/28, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com: Let's don't make guesses ;-) better send/copy your current /etc/X11/ xorg.conf file so we can see what you have added and how it looks like now. Here is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section Device Identifier ATI Driver fglrx Option

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-28 Thread Han Soo Chang
I might have made a slight advance. I added an option ChipID 1002:6779 to designate my card (Radeon HD 7450) to be identical with Radeon HD 6450. Then, I got the following /var/log/Xorg.0.log, which says that DRI initialization failed. kernel module (fglrx.ko) may be missing or incompatible. 2D

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-28 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:35:11 +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: I might have made a slight advance. I added an option ChipID 1002:6779 to designate my card (Radeon HD 7450) to be identical with Radeon HD 6450. Let's don't make guesses ;-) better send/copy your current /etc/X11/ xorg.conf file so

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:07:40 +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: (...) Now, I get the desired resolution of 1920 x 1080. However, redrawing of windows is very slow, and I can't move a window smoothly, which is quite bothersome. Mmm... as you are using gnome2 with metacity (i.e., a non-3D enabled

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:32:51 +0900, Han wrote in message CADZ+JBqkCEZ17Jgb0SXRDF+6pB057bAm+ebBUpAU-=zxkgo...@mail.gmail.com: ..what happens if you try the radeon driver from backports? Or dist-upgrade to wheezy? Well, if I change the word fglrx in my xorg.conf to radeon or radeonhd, it

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-25 Thread keith
Han Soo Chang wrote: I found a proprietary linux driver in AMD's site (http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx) for Radeon HD 7XXX series, but I don't know if it is safe to use it. I've used a 6xxx series driver from their website OK on my Acer running Debian Squeeze 6.0.4. --

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-25 Thread 張 漢秀
On 2012/04/25, at 20:26, keith km3...@gmail.com wrote: I've used a 6xxx series driver from their website OK on my Acer running Debian Squeeze 6.0.4. Did you just run their installer? Wouldn't it cause any future problem? Han Soo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:56:12 +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: Thank you very much for your help. I installed fglxr driver from squeeze backports, but it didn't help. Bad news, then. The backported driver is the same version than the current upstream from AMD/ATI (12.3). Besides the ATI driver,

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-25 Thread keith
張 漢秀 wrote: On 2012/04/25, at 20:26, keithkm3...@gmail.com wrote: I've used a 6xxx series driver from their website OK on my Acer running Debian Squeeze 6.0.4. Did you just run their installer? Wouldn't it cause any future problem? Han Soo Yes, just ran their installer; don't know about

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-25 Thread Han Soo Chang
Thanks again for your help. I didn't realize that I needed to install xorg from the backports besides an upgraded kernel and fglrx driver. Now, I installed linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64, xorg, fglrx-driver, and fglrx-control from the squeeze backports. # aticontrol --initial again failed to

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:07:40 +0900, Han wrote in message cadz+jbpkfdgpcaryl2j53nw80na5cgbi5-a1paw2vpsa9az...@mail.gmail.com: Thanks again for your help. I didn't realize that I needed to install xorg from the backports besides an upgraded kernel and fglrx driver. Now, I installed

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-25 Thread Han Soo Chang
..what happens if you try the radeon driver from backports? Or dist-upgrade to wheezy? Well, if I change the word fglrx in my xorg.conf to radeon or radeonhd, it gives me a black console. Actually, I was running wheezy on my machine, until X window system crashed after my recent upgrade of the

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:10:52 +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: Hi, I recently installed debain squeeze on Hewlet Packard Pavillion h8-1280jp, which has a ATI Radeon HD 7450 graphic card. However, the resolution of the monitor is limited to 1280 x 1024, and I cannot get any higher resolution. (...)

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:10:52 +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: Hi, I recently installed debain squeeze on Hewlet Packard Pavillion h8-1280jp, which has a ATI Radeon HD 7450 graphic card. However, the resolution of the monitor is limited to 1280 x 1024, and I cannot get any higher resolution. (...)

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:10:52 +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: Hi, I recently installed debain squeeze on Hewlet Packard Pavillion h8-1280jp, which has a ATI Radeon HD 7450 graphic card. However, the resolution of the monitor is limited to 1280 x 1024, and I cannot get any higher resolution. (...)

Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-23 Thread Han Soo Chang
Hi, I recently installed debain squeeze on Hewlet Packard Pavillion h8-1280jp, which has a ATI Radeon HD 7450 graphic card. However, the resolution of the monitor is limited to 1280 x 1024, and I cannot get any higher resolution. I have xserver-xorg-video-ati, xserver-xorg-video-radeon, and