ATI Radeon on FC5 Livna
I have used livna for my FC5 installation sitting on a Toshiba Satellite. I have changed the Driver to "ati" instead of "fglrx" as suggested. When I run startx it dispays a lot of pixels and text and graphics are unrecognizable. What will I do so that I can run X in my laptop? Please help me... I have finished installing livna thru yum and everything is OK.
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Has it worked before? What video card model is in it? If ATI Radeon I think maybe to should be ' radeon ' instead of ' ati '. Brian1 |
My video card is ATI Radeon Xpress 200M. It worked before when I used ubuntu using "vesa" and the other tweak (i forgot). But I am now using FC5 but can't work it out. Maybe I will try to use your suggestion for using "radeon" instead of "ati" in the driver.
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Hi,
Please help out a newbie: How do you change the driver? Lavie |
Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as root. Goto the section on video card and change the driver there. Restart X.
NOTE: make a copy of existing xorg.conf before modifing so if you make a mistake you can restore it. Brian1 |
I know I am a noob but this problem is bothering me. I am almost positive I installed the ati drivers right through yum and the Fedorafaq. But now when i go to resolutions, all i have is 800x600 and the one below that. Why did it take away my high res? :(
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Post contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf before and after.
Brian1 |
Before:
# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse0" "AlwaysCore" EndSection Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, a font server independent of the X server is # used to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "synaptics" Load "dri" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option "XkbDisable" # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # or: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" # Or if you just want both to be control, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" # Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection Section "Monitor" ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Unknown monitor" ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9 VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "fglrx" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection After: # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse0" "AlwaysCore" EndSection Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, a font server independent of the X server is # used to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "synaptics" Load "dri" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option "XkbDisable" # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # or: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" # Or if you just want both to be control, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" # Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection Section "Monitor" ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Unknown monitor" ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9 VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "fglrx" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection ******************************************* There ya go, any help and I am grateful. |
Change this section from
SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection to SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Restart X See if this works. If youa can do 1280x1024 then use that but try the above first. Brian1 |
Ty Brian, that worked perfect!!!!
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I followed your step and it was still not OK. I can see that livna driver is loaded [OK] during the boot process. Also, I have changed the Driver "fglrx" to "ati" and "radeon" both did not work for me. When I pressed CTRL+BACKSPACE it wasn't able to go back to text mode. Any suggestion?
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