Hi, I have a notebook with ATI mobility Radeon 9600 and i installed suse 9.2 linux with Xorg 6.8.1 I also applied fglrx 8.16.20 package from ATI 's website and then I tried with fglrxconfig ... but X cannot start ... seems grey, the basic KDE window appears and then all are become grey again .. my xorg.log gives some getmodelines at the end ... May I practise with fglrxconfig monitor syncs or I need other basic packages ? kernel, Xorg ... ? Thanks in advance Yiannis
On Friday 2 September 2005 11:26, Yiannis Georgiadis wrote:
Hi, I have a notebook with ATI mobility Radeon 9600 and i installed suse 9.2 linux with Xorg 6.8.1 I also applied fglrx 8.16.20 package from ATI 's website and then I tried with fglrxconfig ...
but X cannot start ... seems grey, the basic KDE window appears and then all are become grey again ..
my xorg.log gives some getmodelines at the end ...
May I practise with fglrxconfig monitor syncs or I need other basic packages ? kernel, Xorg ... ?
Thanks in advance
Yiannis
Hi Yiannis, I hope you got the driver from the Notebook manufacturer. A "normal" screen is generic, while a notebook is screen-dependant. The graphics-chip might be the same, but the way the driver should work is different. I have the same card in my HP nc5000 and no luck what so ever from HP to get Linux support by means of a driver. And the generic I didn't even try for the reason as given above... Might even damage the screen, but that is just my fear talking... Regards -- Peter M. Groen Open Systems Development Klipperwerf 12 2317 DZ Leiden T: +31-(0)-71-5216317 M: +31-(0)6-29563390 E: info@osdev.xs4all.nl
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:03:26 +0200 "Peter M. Groen" <p.m.groen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
I hope you got the driver from the Notebook manufacturer. A "normal" screen is generic, while a notebook is screen-dependant. The graphics-chip might be the same, but the way the driver should work is different.
I have the same card in my HP nc5000 and no luck what so ever from HP to get Linux support by means of a driver. And the generic I didn't even try for the reason as given above... Might even damage the screen, but that is just my fear talking...
Don't know if that's always the case but for my old Dell Inspiron 8000 with NVidia GeForce 2 Go I always installed the linux drivers directly from NVidia, never from Dell (they didn't have one anyway). That always worked and it wasn't a specific notebook driver. Also not sure about the hardware damage. I guess old configuration programs, man pages and or howtos speak of "you might risk damaging your hardware", but nowadays one reads more or less everywhere that modern hardware simply ignores settings it can't cope with. But then everybody will decide for themselves. ;-) Cheers, Ingo -- Ingo Strauch ---- Registered Linux User #227900 (http://counter.li.org/) GPG Key Fingerprint = DEC8 1B12 9573 6BE7 7A99 C33F 809C 8C2C 772E 66A1 http://www.the-one-brack.org/
On Oct 06, 05 22:03:26 +0200, Peter M. Groen wrote:
I have a notebook with ATI mobility Radeon 9600 and i installed suse 9.2 linux with Xorg 6.8.1 I also applied fglrx 8.16.20 package from ATI 's website and then I tried with fglrxconfig ...
but X cannot start ... seems grey, the basic KDE window appears and then all are become grey again ..
1st) Try to reconfigure in runlevel 3 with 'sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx'. 2nd) If you do not get a useable X this way, please create a bug report. Not sure whether we can help you, but at least I can bug ATI about that.
I hope you got the driver from the Notebook manufacturer. A "normal" screen is generic, while a notebook is screen-dependant. The graphics-chip might be the same, but the way the driver should work is different.
Currently there are no Linux drivers by Notebook manufacturers.
I have the same card in my HP nc5000 and no luck what so ever from HP to get Linux support by means of a driver. And the generic I didn't even try for the reason as given above... Might even damage the screen, but that is just my fear talking...
I've only heared about this once, but that might have been a coincidence. LCDs should never ever be destroyed nowadays, as they need quite some electronics for converting the digital input signal anyway. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ mat@mshopf.de Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ labs www.mshopf.de
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