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I am new to Linux. I have installed several different versions over the years & after a few hours or days I always seem to give up. Can't get internet.. No video.. Ect, ect.. Well, I want to try it again. I am hard headed I guess.
This time before I just install something I wanted to be a little more prepared. So i started looking for drivers for my hardware. The first stop was ATI. They didn't have drivers for fedora. Fedora (FC-6-x86_64-disc1) is the OS I wanted to try.
The only drivers they had were for XFree86 4.3 & X.Org 6.8? Will my video card work? What do I need to do? Where can I start?
My PC is as follows:
AMD Athlon 64 3300+ 2.40 GHz NewCastle Socket 754 CPU
Asus K8V-X SE Motherboard
Ultra 1024MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz
ATI Radeon X1600 Pro AGP 512M
Maxtor DiamondMax 300GB SATA/150 7200RPM 16MB
Ok, I went ahead & installed fedora. Ask me to remove cd & reboot. At reboot it gives me the error "Sync. Out Of Range". I figure this is my video card or monitor?
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
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SOunds like it defaulted to high of res. Need to see the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Also info on the monitor as to brand and model as well as the resolution limits.
SOunds like it defaulted to high of res. Need to see the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Also info on the monitor as to brand and model as well as the resolution limits.
Brian
I think the problem was my second monitor. I had dual monitors hooked up & didn't think to remove one. My one monitor is a 19" lcd by Proview 900W. And the other which I beleave may have caused my problems is an 17" cdr by IBM. I am not sure about its model #.
I have removed the ibm & the video card. I replaced the video card with an older 128mb ATI video card. Then I tried to boot an I got an error "Buffer I/0 error on device dm-0, logical block 0"??
So I am guessing that somehow the install has gotten corrupt?
I am going to try an fresh install & see what happins.
Ok, it seems to have found everything. I have video, sound, & the internet is working.
Only down fall is my video sux. I am off to install my other video card.
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
Posts: 5,700
Rep:
So from what I do see if you still have the other card in there as well as the x1600 one then the x1600 is becoming the dominate card.
That card the x1600 will work with the radeon module from the kernel which is what you are using based on docs from the kernel. You will need to install the latest ATI drivers for the card. I would verify from their site to see if that card is supported.
Based on the xorg it is setup for only one videocard and monitor. If using two of each it will need to be changed to reflect the addition devices. Many post here on xorg files with multiple video cards and monitors.
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