--- Edward Dekkers <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Here is a good place to ask questions Clive. > > Here is your video card: > > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI > Technologies > > Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev > 01) > > > > Try going to http://www.ati.com > > Click on the drivers & software menu option > > Click on Linux Drivers and software > > Click on "Linux x86 > > * RADEON 8500 Series and higher" > > Click on "ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Drivers for > XFree86 / X.Org Version > 8.14.13" > > Read and download what you need. > Hello, I successfully installed the ATI driver on the Linux machine. The ATI install also creates a new graphical utility which is mainLy for controlling the images on "dual-head" cards - but not the other screen parameters such as resolution The supplied (fglrxconfig) configuration script allows one to control very many parameters in the xorg.conf file - but it can be difficult to decide which is the appropriate setting for the ATI card. Shame is - I booted FC3 OK with the new driver but again my machine has frozen under FC3 while in X. The keyboard and mouse are not responded to. I cannot Telnet into the machine to run a shutdown command - telnet client just waits for a response from the hung FC3. Strangely, the machine DOES repond to PING but that's not enough to trigger a reboot. Ho hum, I will have to power it down and get all those inode and directory failures. So situation seems to be with latest ATI drivers: FC2 - stable in command line and running X FC3 - stable in command line, hangs / freezes when running X. Any other ideas anyone? Clive
