Hi, Thanks for the help. Would you send the walk-through in .txt for Windows? Also, do I need to do something to the vesa driver before I install the fgrlx driver? There is monitor configuration file that came with my monitor, I put it as an attachment. I don't know if it will help with driver installation. I understand some of it but not all of it. If it will help would you explain it to me? I do not know how to get to the X86 configuration folder and what settings I should change.
From: Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with video card drivers. Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:51:14 -0400
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:33:01 +0000 "d2ci1fj g1nf24" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having a problem with my video card driver. I'm using a ATI Radeon > 9800 video card. I installed Mandrake 9.1 and set the video > configuration for, video card- vesa, monitor- 1280*1024 @ 60hz, > display- 1024*768 @70hz 24b. I then tested the configuration and it > worked fine. I use the vesa driver because it's the only driver that > will work with my card that is on the list of drivers. There are a few > problems when I use vesa. When I try to logout, shutdown, or restart > the computer goes blank when it is trying to shut down startX. I have > to reboot manually, recheck the file system at startup and fix the > file system. I installed the ATI 9800 drivers two times and I could > not log into the desktop. I installed the drivers correctly and ran > the driver config file. Does anyone know what the problem is?
When using the vesa driver: boot with vga=normal or edit your lilo.conf and set vga=normal Do not use dm Boot to init 3 and use Xtart to launch your wm (this will correct your log-out problem)
I am running cooker and use the fglrx driver with a Radeon 9600 without problem. If you use the fglrx driver you need to get either fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.5.i586.rpm from ATI or glx1_linux_X4.3.zip from http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/body_download_ati.html Both are the same rpm but the zip file also contains the check.sh a file.list and a README.
I have attached a walk-through for running fglrxconfig that I had done for another, this should assist you in its proper set-up.
Charles
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