On Tue April 26 2005 06:56 pm, kas wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 11:28 -1000, Angela Kahealani wrote: > > Has anyone successfully got an ATI video card driving DVI LCD on FC3? > > I have a el cheapo Maddog ATI 9250 AGP card driving the DVI port on a > Dell 2001FP LCD display. In order to get it up, I had to make a few > additions to my xorg.conf: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "radeon" > VendorName "Videocard vendor" > BoardName "ATI Radeon 9200PRO" > Option "EnablePageFlip" "true" > Option "AGPSize" "64M" > Option "AGPMode" "2" > EndSection > > IIRC, it really was the Option "AGPMode" "2" that did the trick...before > I made that change I had a blank screen. Note that although the card > was sold as a 9250, xorg thinks it is a 9200PRO. > > I have added a few mode lines to move the screen a few pixels to the > left but it works fine with the stock modelines other than being shifted > 6 pixels to the right. I use this monitor at 1600x1200. > > The system motherboard is an Asus K8V/Athlon 64 3200+ and it is running > using the same xorg.conf with both FC3 i386 and FC4 T2 x86_64 with no > apparent problems. However, the > Anaconda generated FC4 T2 (and FC3, for that matter) xorg.conf did not > work....it tried but gave a corrupted upper 1/4 screen with the lower > potions looking ok, but the system was unresponsive. My substitute > xorg.conf fixed the problem. > Karen: I'm curious as to how you arrived at these values, particularly the three 'Option' entries. Was that from reading the man xorg.conf or if not, do you remember where? My problem is different from yours, and my model is the 9200SE, so I'm not sure whether to try these settings or not, and I'd like to know more about what they are doing before I try them. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
