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but after reboot i can't see a damn thing...login window looks like about 180x120 res.
using a ati sapphire radeon x1650 video card.
question:
if i d/l ati graphics driver to a usb drive, would i be able to install it in single user mode?
Distribution: Debian /Jessie/Stretch/Sid, Linux Mint DE
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Open xorg again.
Code:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 28.0 - 84.0 << on the safe side
VertRefresh 43.0 - 120.0 << on the safe side
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device Ignore this, it will be different with you
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480" "600x800" "1024x768" << see below
EndSubSection
EndSection
If you have a CRT monitor the Modes 640x480 etc are OK. If you have an LCD enter at least one combination which complies with the native resolution of your monitor.
If you have an LCD, change the highest VertRefresh to 60.0
If that fails, check /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what resolution/refresh rate has been chosen by X and if that is something your monitor chokes on.
Distribution: Debian /Jessie/Stretch/Sid, Linux Mint DE
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What does Xorg.0.log tell you?
Sure you can download the driver and try to install it. Given the total lack of success with a generic VESA driver the chances are slight that something useful emerges when making things more complicated by installing another proprietary driver.
Distribution: Debian /Jessie/Stretch/Sid, Linux Mint DE
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I have looked at the ATI driver. It is a shell script with a fairly large binary attached. The binary consist of compiled libraries for a number of distros, a number of different cards and probably some source files to be compiled against your current kernel.
Installation is most likely taken care of by a GUI app. (Which is tremendously stupid as often you won't have a GUI available when you install this driver)
Anyway, you can list and decompress all the files in the shell script (use -h parameter to see how) After that is done, you should dig into the directory tree of the decompressed driver files to see if there is somewhere some some scripts which will perform the install, or at least a README to tell you how to install this driver from the command line.
That is as much as I can tell you. Time doesn't permit to sort this all out for you and give you a step-by-step instruction. Someone else maybe?
You could install the proprietary Ati driver from the Debian repository.
Had a quick scan through the guide,and from what i can see should be possible to install from the cli.
Here's the link:
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