On Saturday 05 August 2006 12:17, Russ Stewart wrote:
Hi Bruce & all
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.
Trying to recall what I did to get the ATI to work: First, the ATI drivers require as a starting point, an xorg.conf that is set to the screen size that you want to end up with. I was able to start with the xorg.conf from my 10.0 system. Then, going into SAX2 with that would cause my machine to hang.... so I had to enter SAX2 with: sax2 -l which sets it to a low resolution. This gives you a totally screwed up screen and navigating is by guess and by golly. You need to navigate around and get the setting you want, but that is mostly guess-work since you can't read the screen very well. Once you done that, you are probably all set. HOWEVER - - - - - even though after a week of work I *did* get it to work, I still went out and bought an Nvidia card for $50 and haven't looked back. I know the guy who writes the drivers for Nvidia so I have some faith that they will work... and they do.