Re: ATI Radeon X740 XL
From: Joost van der Waa (J.vander.waa_at_whipethishccnet.nl)
Date: 05/29/05
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Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 23:45:53 +0200
Joost van der Waa wrote:
> Rajko M. wrote:
>> Joost van der Waa wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> I'm using a rare kind of ATI-card X740XL (which comes with an Aldi
>>> Medion pc).
>>> Which flags should I give as paramaters? Haven't got a clue...:-(
>>>
>>> Joost
>>
>>
>> Hi Joost,
>>
>> There is no much references about the X740 XL. ATI has nothing about
>> X740 XL, but it has about Mobility Radeon x700.
>> Here is about Radeon drivers from ATI:
>> http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=27
>>
>> With SuSE 9.3 is shipped X.org and you probably need last driver in the
>> list.
>> Supported cards:
>> http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.12.10.html
>> General questions:
>> http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=27
>>
>>
>> Please take a look in:
>> ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ATI/suse93/README
>> for SuSE specific questions.
>>
>> What often happend to me since earliest SuSE, that default video mode
>> selected by installer is out of hardware range. So keyboard combination
>> Ctrl Alt + (numeric pad +) was quite handy to change X server video modes
>> until picture appears, and than set that as default in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>> (before it was XF86config).
>> With ATI and nVidia above said can help, but taking instructions in
>> README
>> on ftp server and many postings here including the one that you answered
>> problem has different source. Part of ATI driver is third party software
>> that they can give only in binary form. That makes trouble, as any driver
>> is compiled for certain kernel version.
>> #man SaX2 Has switches explained. More detailed is document in
>> /usr/share/doc/packages/sax2/.
>> If problem is only in the high video resolution, so X.org server can't
>> find
>> presentable video mode, than setting default to low resolution with:
>> #SaX2 -l
>> Will give you setup screen 640x480 so you can browse options and set
>> manually resolution to be within hardware limitations, add few lower
>> resolutions as backup that you can switch to using Ctrl Alt + (or -). It
>> can happen that you have to adjust screen shape, position and size on
>> your
>> monitor.
>> You can try to log in console as root and run xorg server in
>> configuration
>> mode. That is explained in:
>> #man xorg
>> with an example how to run server after configuration file xorg.conf is
>> written in your home directory.
>> If you give us more details about error messages, someone can come up
>> with
>> more deailed instructions how to solve the problem.
>> From previous posting in another thread I know that it worked fine on
>> boot,
>> but problems came after first reboot. SuSE installer is using some
>> safe bet
>> video mode like one of VESA modes, that are standard and supported by
>> all
>> cards today. It is good for normal use, but it doesn't use all video card
>> features, like 3D etc. Later when you boot it is used different driver
>> that
>> better supports video card.
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for all your replies. I managed to get things working again,
> but don't ask me what was going wrong. The card is recognized as a X700
> and it works now as it did in the beginning.
> I still have some problems left, but these are hard to reproduce:
> - Every now and then my system freezes completely. The only solution is
> to switch the power off :-( I haven't found any consequent behaviour in
> this problem, so it is a little bit difficult to pinpoint the culprit.
> - The background of the grub bootloader screen is shown with too less
> colours (almost like EGA mode). Of coursethis is due to my graphics
> card, but still, it shouldn't be that hard to do a little better.
>
> Joost
I installed the ATI-driver from their site, and it looks like everything
works fine (for now). I'll post my future experiences when this goes
wrong again.
Joost
p.s. I should have been wiser and have bought myself a Nvidia card
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