-----Original Message----- From: Donald Grayson [mailto:dgrayson@sportpaint.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 7:34 AM To: jpearson3 Subject: RE: [SLE] Radeon 8500 First off, you don't have to recompile X just to change the config file. X keeps a file in /etc/X11 called X11Config. It's a simple text file and can be edited very easily. SaX2 should be able to configure your card fairly easily, the onle real hard part is getting your monitor setup right. If you have the monitor's manual that'd be great. You have to put in your monitor's Horizontal and Vertical frequency limits into SaX2 so that it can tell X what resolutions your monitor can handle. When I get home tonight I can forward you a copy of my X11Config as a reference. Don
-----Original Message----- From: jpearson3 [mailto:jpearson3@wanadoo.fr] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:18 PM To: Vidor Dmeter; Donald Grayson; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Radeon 8500
To all SuSE gurus,
I just picked up a Radeon 8500 (evil master II Pro by power color) and SuSE8.1 installed it as R200QL.
I don't have the slightest idea on how to compile X11Config "by hand" would some be so kind as to give me a few pointers to get be started. For example What is the X11Config source_file called ? What are required librairies?
What is the basic procedure ? I imagine that it must be something like ... tar xvf source_file ./configure make
Thanks in advance Ciao James Pearson E mail (mai) : james.pearson@wanadoo.fr E mail (bur) : james.pearson@wanadoo.com Web page: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/j.pearson/
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Vidor Dmeter" <vidor@home.se> To: "Donald Grayson" <dgrayson@sportpaint.com>; <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Radeon 8500
Hi Don,
The monitor model was choosed by SuSE too and did not worked. I tried to change to the right monitor by choosing it from the list, (Hansol) 90P - I think - but no X11 started with it. Yes I tried to configure X11 with xfconfig, but the results was the same. With Sax2 couldn't do anything, it doesn't start... :-(
Maybe I'll try to make up an X11Config by hand as you suggest :-)
Thanks for all help I've got... Vidor
----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald Grayson" <dgrayson@sportpaint.com> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:43 PM Subject: RE: [SLE] Radeon 8500
If SuSE recognized your friends card it should have picked the right
for it, considering there's only one driver that comes with X for the Radeon series cards.
Did you make sure your friend chose the right monitor model for his setup and that it is using the right refresh rates? Have you considered making up an X11Config by hand? It'll be a lot easier than compiling X from
driver source.
Don
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