On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 16:00 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mi, den 03.08.2005 schrieb Johan Lozano um 23:02:
>
> > I juist installed FC4 on a brand new Acer Aspire 5024 WLMi
> > how has a ATI Mobility Radeon X700 video adapter an a Broadcom 802.11/g
> > wireless network card.
> > Does anybody knows what driver is suitable for this kind of video card
> > since it is not detected by the system?
>
> It can help to explicitly set in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> ChipID 0x5D57
adding this entry screen flikkers like hell
> Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,AUTO"
this seems to be accepted
> Check which driver is set up in xorg.conf.
>
i edited xorg.conf like this
Section "Device"
#ChipID 0x5d57
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "X800"
EndSection
subsection display is modified in this way
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"640x480"
EndSubSection
>
> > Same problem voor for the network adapter.
>
> for Broadcom chipsets your nearly always need something to use the
> Windows® drivers on Linux: a) open source ndiswrapper b) or pay for
> driverloader. It matter which chip is used exactly. Can be found out
> running "/sbin/lspci".
>
> > Johan
>
> Alexander
>
>
now i have wonderful display in 1280x800 with the fglrx driver
thanks a lot. now the network. i will let you know if it 's working.
Johan Lozano
MicroBit, Duffel
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