Hi Bruce & all I've now gone thru a complete install and stopped at the page you can change the screen resolution. For this monitor I have tried all the resolutions and colour depths. I have also tried setting it as a LCD monitor with again all resution/V refresh rates for 800x600 and 1024x768. Again nothing that is useable. however, if I load the live copy of Mandriva 2007 it fires up in gnome 2.14 , with a resolution of 1024x 768 @75 Hz, but as a live copy there's no xorg.conf to read.. I've tried the same settings with SAX2 with the -V switch set to 1064x768@75 and still nothing. Not having a working version of xorg.conf, I have no working base to go from, I'm also new to Suse since a long time ago. At the worst case how do I set the X server to use the same defaults as used by the installer, at least that would be useable, or is it a case of buying a Nvidia PCI E card. I would have hoped that the Suse developers would have got the drivers for this onboard ATI thing. TIA Russ What PCIE graphic cards a known to work with Suse 10.1 ??? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Marshall" <bmarsh@bmarsh.com> To: "SLE" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] X problems
On Saturday 05 August 2006 11:26, Russ Stewart wrote:
Hi Its a new install of 10.1 Mobo ia an ASUS P4RD1-MX with an integrated graphics card Radeon XPRESS 200 5A41 PCIE
The initial driver was set by SAX2 as radeon which sets the wrong Vertical refresh rate, the monitor is a Medion MD7475AB, which on another OS works at 1024x 768 75 Hz.
I've tried both the xorg driver supplied with the Mobo and downloaded the ATI xorg driver, niether have made any difference. xorg.conf has now gotten a bit corupt with manual editing , trying both radeon and fglrx drivers. s So now a fresh install incase YAST will allow the X config to be tried.
can anyone recommend how to set up the video driver on this mobo
Any help appreciated, TIA
Russ
The graphics setup on 10.1 out of the box is really terrible. I spent a week diddling with it on my ATI 9200 with a 1600x1200 LCD monitor and almost gave up.
I did download and apply the ATI driver (I think) but at the time (mid-May) I don't think they had a driver for the version of Xorg that 10.1 uses.
I did get it to work but it was a matter of using old parts (my xorg.conf from 10.0) and some black magic applied.
If you have an old xorg.conf file that works, that is a good starting place but even then there is more work to do.
Let me know if you have an old one.
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