I finally gave up on the ATI binary driver. It left the screen totally unreadable and I couldn't find a setting that worked. Went out and bought an nvidia card and it's driver install set me up perfectly. Thanks for all the help. Jim Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Thursday 25 January 2007 13:41, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I can't even get the binary driver to work. The best looking screen I can get is totally black (except for a little window that says I should be in the 1680 x 1050 mode that stays on the screen for a few minutes).
That little window is probably put up by your monitor.... and it is teilling you the 'native' resolution that you want to be in.
You might search the archives. I wrote a lot of info back around the middle of Oct when I was doing this.
I just looking in my /etc/X11 and I have a bunch of xorg.conf files in there:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5356 2006-12-13 18:46 xorg.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5283 2006-05-21 20:02 xorg.conf.1280 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5685 2006-05-25 15:18 xorg.conf.ati1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5356 2006-12-13 18:46 xorg.conf.backup -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5759 2006-05-25 16:54 xorg.conf.fglrx-0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5209 2005-10-12 11:18 xorg.conf.install
What I think I did was to use the install xorg in order to give sax something to work with. And as I said, even then I could just barely read the sax config screen and had to pretty much guess what I was doing.
Things really should be a lot better now (one would think) because when I was trying to use the binary driver.... ATI hadn't yet put out a driver that was made for 10.1. I would think that they would have a better one now.
But I've never had problems with NVidia.... (and I know the guy who works on the driver code)
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