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. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org