On Monday 23 June 2003 20:57, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 12:19, Vincent Danen wrote:
> > Has anyone gotten this to work with 9.1? I've got a radeon 8500 that I
> > had temporarily put into a machine that just did console, and now I've
> > moved it back to my own machine and I'll be darned if I can make it work
> > properly. I can get 640x480 out of it and that's it... I kinda would
> > like to have 1280x1024 again... =) I pulled out a r128 card, tried
> > XFdrake to make the changes and no dice, so I even did a reinstall last
> > night and still nothing.
> >
> > I'm a total n00b when it comes to X and different cards and even trying
> > some ATI binary drivers resulted in nothing happening and I've been told
> > that the 8500 should work "out of the box".
> >
> > Any help would be seriously appreciated. Thanks.
>
> It comes close.... One question here. What is your monitor. 90% of the
> X related problems I've found are related to the wrong monitor
> settings. Also is it correctly detecting the amount of video ram on
> this card?
>
> James
I agree with James. I have three ATI 9000 Pros on three different installs of
MDK 9.1. When I set up X during the install, I ALWAYS have to use the generic
1024x768 @70Hz option in the monitor selection. It detects my monitor
correctly as a Gateway ev700, but using that, I never can get any resolution
to test out correctly. Come to think of it, I've had to use the generic
settings with ANY video card for this monitor.
My relevant sections (my 3d acceleration works great with the stock 9.1 Radeon
driver):
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Generic"
ModelName "1024x768 @ 70 Hz"
HorizSync 31.5-57.0
VertRefresh 50-70
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
Load "dri" # direct rendering
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Robert Crawford
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