On 08/04/2010 02:38 PM, Robert Cunningham wrote:
On my work PC I have an older ati x1650 graphics card running 2 Dell CRT monitors. This machine was running 11.2 just fine with the ati legacy drivers. after up grading to 11.3 for some other needs. I can't configure my monitors. In KDE personal settings it won't let me set the VGA higher than 800x600 at 60Hz and it defaults the Agp output to 1024X768 at 80 Hz anything that is saved here does not stick it reverts back to the low settings upon reboot. that I have tried using an old xconfig file( modified for the radeon driver), adding settings to the xconfig.d file, that hangs up the system at boot. Following some parts of the Ubuntu Wiki (Suse wiki no help at all) I can get my system configured to 1400x1050 @85Hz with side by side screens using xrandr commands so I know everything can work, but there is no way to make this permanent. I followed the Wiki to try and put these commands into my .Xprofile, or /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup, but these files do not exist and adding them hangs up my system. I would try my old ati drivers, but I have been told they are not compatible with the newer kernel. So where do I go from here ?
You are in luck, the xf86-video-ati driver is in the best shape it has ever been for 11.3 (especially since there is no hope of porting the 11.0 fglrx driver forward for 11.3....) I suspect your are missing the radeon driver and you are booting into framebuffer graphics. Check that you have the radeon driver installed with: lsmod | grep radeon You should see 4-5 instances of it being used in the output. If you don't get all the happy radeon output, chances are you don't have the radeon driver installed (or installed correctly) My 11.3 box is not up at the moment, but the generic name for the package you will need for the driver is xf86-video-ati....rpm. I don't recall suse's naming convention right off-hand, but you could search your installed packages to see if you have anything radeon or ati related with: rpm -qa | grep -i "radeon\|ati" also try the following just in case the naming convention is strange: rpm -qa | grep -i driver-video I would do a webpin search for you, but the whole webpin system seems to be broken as hell for all of 11.3. If you can't find the ati driver (may be in the generic driver package "xorg-x11-driver-video", then look at the output of 'lspci -v' and get the release number for the x1650 (no not 1650, but R430 or R5XX) if the x1650 is an R5XX or R6XX, then you can use the radeonhd driver as well (although I believe the 1650 was still and R4XX card) REMEMBER: YOU DO NOT NEED AN xorg.conf file. That may be part of your problem if you are using an old xorg.conf file. Since xorg 7.2 X will start with an intelligent set of defaults on its own, and, in fact, if the current kernel is doing KMS early, then you probably do NOT want an xorg unless you have really special needs. Give those options a try and report back. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org