Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 10/19/2007 06:34 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote:
Ok, I tried the ati driver with the radeon 9800 pro card. Makes no
difference, does not work either. Then I tried setting agpmode to 4x,
but that did not get me to a destop either, with 4 different drivers,
vesa, radeon, ati, and flgrx. So I re-installed the 9200, and my monitor
says "mode out of range", which happens with this card during default
res installation, Don't even see the command line running by on boot.
This with the vesa, radeon, and ati driver.
So it sounds to me like it is your monitor specs which are causing your
problems. Do you know the specs? You could add them to the Monitor
database so sax2 gets it right to start with. Also, if the boot screens
are not visible, which are using frame buffer mode, you need to replace
the vga= line in your grub menu.lst. What do you have there? You can
pass this on boot also, i.e. vga=ask, or vga=0x31a (which is
1280x1024x64k, check /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt if you
have kernel sources installed). What is your monitor? I think your
monitor is not well supported automatically is more your problem than
your video card.
I can edit the 10.3 xrog.conf file from my 10.2 install, but I don't
know what to change to make this card feed something my monitor can
handle.
Section Monitor would help.
So I'll do a re-install of 10.3 again. At this point the only
thing I can think of that I haven't tried, is the ati fglrx driver with
10.3 on the 9200 card. I'll try that and report back. After that I'm out
of ideas.
Hope it works, but a reinstall seems drastic. If you want, i can send
you my xorg.conf, but since they are not exactly the same, it could only
be a reference, which I'm sure you have already.
Hi Joe,
My monitor works OK, but 1280x1024 wont run on my radeon 9200 card. If I
set the boot to 1024x768 I can see the boot screen, and the text. Thanks
for pointing out how to set that in grub. For some reason the installer
on 10.3 and 10.2 does not detect that so I have to set the res first
then all goes well. Until I get to runlevel 5, then no gui. I tried a
different vid card, but with the known good card, 9200, 10.3 will not
run kdm. 10.2 does.
I just installed the ati fglrx driver to run wtih the 9200, but that
does not work either. So all 4 drivers I've tried, vesa, ati, radeon and
fglrx will not boot into a gui. Short of changing my mother board, I
guess I can try buying an inexpensive nvidia card. But I really don't
want to spend the $$ on an agp card.
Jim F
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