It's resolved itself. You know how you make one big circle and come back
to where you started and everything works when it didnt before.
I put the card in, installed the kmod-fglrx driver and rebooted the
machine into runlevel 5. Nada. Black screen. Looked through the
Xorg.log files and wrote to the list.
Then, I decided to try the vendor's driver. Removed the kmod-fglrx
driver and rebooted the machine and the gui came up. At the full
resolution of the screen.
On 01/15/2016 09:08 AM, Mark Stodola wrote:
On 01/15/2016 08:36 AM, Ken Teh wrote:
I installed a Radeon 5450 card in an SL6.7 machine in the hopes of
getting a higher resolution video. The on-board could only handle
1280x1024. But I've been unable to get it to work. At first I thought
I bought the wrong card - a Radeon 6430. So, I ordered a 5450 after
looking through the list of supported chipsets reported in the
Xorg.0.log file. The 6430 was not listed even though it did list 6000
series. The 5450 was explicitly listed.
But the net effect is the same. The Xorg.0.log reports no screens
found. It apparently starts with a
[KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported
Then, starts to go through a series of fallbacks, deleting each Screen 0
because there was no matching config section.
I would appreciate any help you can provide.
Thanks.
Try installing the kmod-fglrx/fglrx-x11-drv packages from elrepo. This is
ATI's binary driver and is generally kept up to date.
-Mark
