BandiPat wrote: > On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Jim Flanagan wrote: > >> Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: >> >>> On 10/16/2007 11:02 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote: >>> >>>> OK, you are most correct, the driver was radeon. I changed it to >>>> vesa, then rebooted, but no change in behavior, not GUI at all. I >>>> only get to command line. >>>> >>> FWIW, I also have a 9200 (SE) using the radeon driver. Selecting >>> 3D did not work originally (monitor could not sync). I noticed in >>> the log agpgart was trying to work in 8x. In 10.2 it worked in 4x, >>> so I set up 3D and added "AGPMode" "4" via sax2, and mine worked >>> again immediately. There may be a problem with the driver. When i >>> used fglrx, it did work in 8x. Anyway, try adding the agp >>> limitation and retry. >>> >> Hi Joe, I noticed your post in the other thread about agp in 4x mode, >> and did try that. It did not work in my case. But, I had already >> switched video cards out. At present I'm running (or trying to run) >> the ATI 9800 Pro. (I could not get this card to run at all in 10.2, >> but thought that might be fixed in 10.3). I'll go back to the 9200 >> and try your suggestion on that card. (The default 10.3 install did >> not work with the 9200, which is why I tried switching cards). >> >> FYI I also tried the fglrx driver on the 9800 pro last night and I >> could not even see the command line with that driver. Fortunately >> uninstalling the fglrx drivers from yast did get me back to at least >> seeing the command line. Switching driver from radeon to vesa makes >> no difference, command line but no kde. >> >> Thanks for the suggestion, will try the 9200 again later today. >> >> Jim F >> > > =========== > > Have you guys tried the "ati" driver instead of the "radeon"? I know > both seem to work for me, but the differences were usually the cards > they worked with, which may be the case with you. > > Either run sax2 with ati > sax2 -m 0=ati > or just change the driver in xorg.conf to test it. > > Lee > Hi Lee,
Will try that too. Will revert. Thanks, Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
