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Hi everybody |
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Well the xorg server downgrade did not help either, so I abandon the |
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cloesed source drivers from Ati |
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and went on to try to install my S3 onboard savage graphic processor. |
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This work almost instantly without any problems except for the fact that |
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I experienced a lot |
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of areas on the screen that was updated out of sync with the rest of the |
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screen. |
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Deciding that I could not work with that I tried the open source drivers |
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for the ati card. |
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I followed this guide: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers |
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and added these lines to my make.conf: |
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INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" |
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VIDEO_CARDS="savage radeon" |
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reinstalled my x-server and tried to start x. |
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This failed. |
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I then spent one hour or so tweaking xorg.conf and about 10 minutes ago |
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I finally found a combination that seems to work. |
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I still can't get max resolution for my monitor (1920*1200) but everything |
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else seems to work to a degree that I can live with for now. |
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Thanks for all the pointers and advices. It's very nice to have a community |
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to help when you stumble along with your Linux installation. |
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Joe |
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Francisco Rivas wrote: |
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> Johannes, |
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> It is a good idea try with other version of the xorg. please post |
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> something about your experience. |
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> Currently I'm supporting the theory that Young Sun is right, and that |
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> the problem is the version of Xorg. |
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> Tomorrow I will try to uninstall the compiled drivers from ati and |
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> try |
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> the open source drivers. If that doesn't work |
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> I'm feeling inclined to buy a new nvidia card instead. |
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> Maybe I could also try to make the onboard S3 savage card work, |
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> although I have never been a big fan of |
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> graphic cards with shared memory. |
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> Thanks again for all the help.... |
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> Johannes |
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> -- |
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> -- |
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> Francisco Rivas |
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> Linux User (New) : #448324 |
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> Linux Machine (New) : 355187 |
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