Re: [gentoo-user] ATI 1900 & ati drivers

[Roman Zilka]

Hi,

for starters: what do your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log
look like? What version of ati-drivers do you use? Have you tried
another version?

-Roman


> Hello,
>
> I first set the card up using the radeon open source drivers. The sceen clarity
> was not very good. The AMD64 system is find under XP, so the monitor and card
> function properly.
>
> I next tried the ati-binaries, trying what was suggested in several
> web pages.
>
> When I run startx, the screen just goes black.
> When I try to rund fglrxinfo (without x started up)
> I get:
> Error: unable to open display :0
>
> Here are the wikis I found:
>
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers
> http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html#4_nodevice
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon?action=highlight&value=CategoryHardwareChipset
>
> Any ideas?
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