Not sure about the AIW DV's, as I've only tried it on the 'regular' 8500.
You may want to post the /var/log/XFree86.0.log and perhaps it will shed
some light on why your cannot do higher res. Perhaps your Monitor section
has too restrictive HorizSync/VertRefresh values.
ani
On 2 Aug 2002, Nelson Bartley wrote:
> Query For Ya,
>
> I followed your advice and downloaded the Firegl 8800 drivers. I
> installed them, set my bit depth to 24, however I cannot get the X
> server to start @ any other resolution then 640x480.
>
> I know both video card and monitor can do better, as I can get them to
> do 1280x1024. I notice however you said it works fine w/ most of the
> cards, have you heard of any incompatibilities w/ the AIW8500DV?
>
> Thanks,
> NB
>
> On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 23:23, Ani Joshi wrote:
> >
> > Download ATI's binary firegl drivers on their website, www.ati.com. It
> > will work fine with pretty much all 8500 cards. Performance is very good
> > from what I've done locally.
> >
> >
> > ani
> >
> >
> > On 1 Aug 2002, Nelson Bartley wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > > Though I'm sure this topic is covered often, and I understand that ATI
> > > is working on Firegl 8800 drivers, is there currently any way to have a
> > > R200 (8500) based ATI video card have "acceptable" performance?
> > >
> > > I'm about to enable glx, and I would like to hope that it will work
> > > after turning that option on, however I wonder if there is anything else
> > > I can do to increase performance.
> > >
> > > Is it still the accepted standard that if you want 3d Performance under
> > > linux that you have to aquire an NVIDIA card and use their binary
> > > drivers?
> > >
> > > Thanks for the info guys,
> > >
> > > Nelson "Gizmo" Bartley
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