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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] ATI 1900 & ati drivers
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:51:23
Message-Id: loom.20061218T023658-765@post.gmane.org
1 Hello,
2
3 I first set the card up using the radeon open source drivers. The sceen clarity
4 was not very good. The AMD64 system is find under XP, so the monitor and card
5 function properly.
6
7 I next tried the ati-binaries, trying what was suggested in several
8 web pages.
9
10 When I run startx, the screen just goes black.
11 When I try to rund fglrxinfo (without x started up)
12 I get:
13 Error: unable to open display :0
14
15 Here are the wikis I found:
16
17
18 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
19 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers
20 http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html#4_nodevice
21 http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon?action=highlight&value=CategoryHardwareChipset
22
23 Any ideas?
24
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Re: [gentoo-user] ATI 1900 & ati drivers Roman Zilka <rzilka@××××.cz>