On Mon Jun 23, 2003 at 05:57:47PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > > Has anyone gotten this to work with 9.1? I've got a radeon 8500 that I had > > temporarily put into a machine that just did console, and now I've moved it > > back to my own machine and I'll be darned if I can make it work properly. I > > can get 640x480 out of it and that's it... I kinda would like to have > > 1280x1024 again... =) I pulled out a r128 card, tried XFdrake to make the > > changes and no dice, so I even did a reinstall last night and still nothing. > > > > I'm a total n00b when it comes to X and different cards and even trying some > > ATI binary drivers resulted in nothing happening and I've been told that the > > 8500 should work "out of the box". > > > > Any help would be seriously appreciated. Thanks. > > It comes close.... One question here. What is your monitor. 90% of the > X related problems I've found are related to the wrong monitor > settings. Also is it correctly detecting the amount of video ram on > this card?
It's a NEC AccuSync 70 (CRT). Monitor settings seem ok.. they're the same I've been using forever. And yeah, it's detecting all 64MB on the card now that I'm using the binary drivers for XFree86 4.3.0. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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