On Wednesday 10 September 2003 10:45 am, Dave Howorth wrote:
Hi all,
I'm having problems configuring my graphics. The card came with the machine and I thought I'd bought a 9000 but when I opened the box the card says Radeon 9200 (should be better, right :)
The card runs fine in text mode and will run X at 640x480 and at 800x600 but I haven't persuaded it to run at 1024x768 or 1280x1024 yet and would welcome any help.
I'm running SuSE 8.2 with a Mantel kernel (k_smp-2.4.21-59 - I know there's a more recent one but I'm reluctant to upgrade every other day!). I've obtained the ATI driver (fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.5) and rebuilt the kernel and driver.
I'm currently running with the XF86Config-4 file generated by fglrxconfig. I've previously tried to use sax2 but it seems less than helpful - it doesn't recognize either the graphics card or my monitor (a Hitachi CML174SXW LCD) and forgets the monitor details every time I type them in.
Anyway, I'll be grateful for any suggestions as to what I need to do to enable 1280x1024.
Cheers, Dave
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Dave, My 9200 has done nicely both in 2d & 3d, once I got the ATI driver installed and the 3d module built for my kernel. Once you have or start using the ATI driver, do not go back to sax2 to try any type of configuration as it will change your symlinks on the libGL libraries and you will be using Mesasoft again. I was able to get the higher resolutions even using the VESA framebuffer settings in sax2, before installing the ATI driver, so XFree86 4.3 at least handled the card, but would not optimize for it. I am presently running 1280x1024 at 24bit, seems that the 9200 likes the 24bit better as I usually just run at 16bit. I am also running the Mantel kernel, but using the 2.4.21-64 build as it fixed some things not working in the -59 build, specifically 3D and direct rendering module loading, you might want to update also. Remove the ATI driver with rpm -e, install the newer kernel or go back to the SuSE kernel (2.4.20-100), but be sure to install the kernel-source as well for that kernel. You will then need to install your ATI driver again and it will give you some instructions, which I believe are also in a readme file from ATI's site. cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper make cloneconfig make dep Then execute the instructions from ATI to finish building your 3d driver modules. Run fglrxconfig to configure the card and restart your X server. Hopefully things will take off for you as easily as they did for me. Be aware though that if you AGP is not up to standards, you may still have problems as it pushes it for the speed it needs. Good Luck Pat -- --- KMail v1.5.3-3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...