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Saturday, May 17th 2003, 7:51pm

video card from hell

im having alot of problems with my ati radeon 9700 pro video card. i cant seem to get it working.

im using gentoo linux, i installed the ati-drivers and ran the config tool. i tried startx and i got a completly black screen. i could restart but it wouldnt display anything.

i added support for radeon in my kernel, that did nothing. i trued to edit the xconfig file myslef by switching from ati to radeon to the flglrx for the driver and nothing would work.



im completly confused here and i am new to this stuff, any advice?

thanks

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Saturday, May 17th 2003, 7:53pm

i almost forgot if i use the normal xconfig tool i get this for a config file

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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "glx"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 350 260 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "DEL"
ModelName "DELL M992"
DisplaySize 350 260
HorizSync 30-96
VertRefresh 50-160
Option "DPMS"
ModeLine "1024x768/100Hz" 115.5 1024 1056 1248 1440 768 771 781 802 -HSync -VSync
ModeLine "1024x768/76Hz" 85 1024 1032 1152 1360 768 784 787 823
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForcePCIMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "CPusecTimeout" # <i>
#Option "AGPMode" # <i>
#Option "AGPFastWrite" # [<bool>]
#Option "AGPSize" # <i>
#Option "RingSize" # <i>
#Option "BufferSize" # <i>
#Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRIReinit" # [<bool>]
#Option "PanelOff" # [<bool>]
#Option "DDCMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "MonitorLayout" # [<str>]
#Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
#Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" # [<bool>]
#Option "CloneMode" # [<str>]
#Option "CloneHSync" # [<str>]
#Option "CloneVRefresh" # [<str>]
#Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 9700 Pro"
VideoRam 131072
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
vendorname ""
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768/76Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"

EndSection


kde does start, but it looks horrible(very on kde like :D ). heres a screen shot[img]http://www.justlinux.com/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=563866[/img]

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Saturday, May 17th 2003, 9:50pm

anyone?

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Saturday, May 17th 2003, 11:08pm

I don't understand, does kde works, or not ?
If it looks ugly, you just have to configure it through the KControlCenter.

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Sunday, May 18th 2003, 2:10am

you seem to be limited to 8-bit colour, but perhaps i am blind :D

visit
http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6

then go here to download the appropriate driver
http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html

they seem to have linux/xfree86 based drivers with openGL extensions for the ATI Radeon 9700, i think that is what u have

good luck
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Sunday, May 18th 2003, 1:56pm

I thinks seb hits it spot on, but I think the solution might be as simple as adding:
defaultdepth 16
to your "screen" section in XF86Config e.g.:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768/76Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubSection

You may substitute the 16 with 24 for more colours.

James

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Sunday, May 18th 2003, 5:44pm

well that helped the overall apperence alot thanks. i was playing with alot of things and getting now where.

but there one thing i wondering, in file manager window one the side with the files i still have those lines running threw it, why? everything else is fine(but i need to get some new themes!).

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Monday, May 19th 2003, 12:43pm

Those lines look like a wallpaper, no?
(there used to be a wallpaper using those lines ;)

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Monday, May 19th 2003, 12:56pm

This can be easily changed by going to View->Background Image and selecting "None".
You can also use View->Background Colo(u)r to select a nice colour to fit in with your theme.

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Tuesday, May 20th 2003, 1:43am

i also advise, that if you do want openGL extension support under linux, that you do what i have told you in my warlier post -- HOWEVER! take extreme caution, I know that i have blown my box several times just trying to install nvidia drivers, and they seem to have more linux support than ATI. But now, thanks to Nvidia, it is much better (ie i dont die nemore! lol) . Make sure u install openGL before doing anything else with your box, if that is what u want.
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