[XFree86] ATI Radeon 9000

[Thomas Arildsen]

I recently installed Mandrake 9.1 which comes with Xfree86 4.3.0. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 (64MB) graphics card and an Acer AL732 LCD monitor capable of 1280x1024. However I can only run it up to 1024x768. I have tried using the tool at http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/ for generating a modeline appropriate for my monitor by using the specs from the manual. After I did this, I was able to run with the monitor in 1280x1024, but the screen blanks from time to time. I suspect that the driver for the Radeon card might be causing the trouble – I use the ATI Radeon driver that comes with XFree86. Does anyone have any experience with this problem? Would I get a newer driver for the graphics card if I tried installing the newest development snapshot of XFree86?   Thomas Arildsen