Phil Meyer wrote:
Carroll Grigsby wrote:
On Monday 28 May 2007 2:12:59 am Olaf Hartmer wrote:
Hi,
I have installed Core 6. But I have a problem with the resolution.
My computer has the following graphic cartd installed:
ATI X1600 AGP.
But I can only select the following resolutions: 640 *480, 800 * 600.
And even worth. Only 640 * 480 is working. If I select the other
resolution, it is not accepted.
Under Windows I am using 1280*1080.
What do have to do?
For test reasons, I installed Ubuntu. I had also problems, but I could
install a test graphical driver with the following commands:
1.) apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
2.) sudo aticonfig --initial
3.) sudo aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
How can I solve this problem?
Best Regards
Olaf
Olaf:
You will find the answer to your question -- and many others that you
may have -- at this site:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/
-- cmg
Kind of ...
The real problem is that the ATI X1000 (R6) cards are not supported
by any of the open source drivers that ship with FC6 (or F7 for that
matter). So what happens is that you get defaulted to the 'vesa'
driver. That works ok for 2D, but it also is very limited in what
resolutions it will display.
For example, the vesa driver will not display 1920x1200. There are
others, also.
So you are stuck with the fglrx driver from AMD/ATI. Well, its not
going to make you happy to learn that Linux support from AMD/ATI is
very poor currently. You can install the driver using instructions
from the FAQ, as suggested, but you may not get all you wanted.
For example, the AMD/ATI fglrx driver does not support the new
Composite extension in X. That means you cannot run Beryl or Compbiz
with the AMD/ATI driver, uless you also use the XGL version of the X
server from Novell -- yuck! The same is true for all
versions/distributions of Linux. Ubuntu cannot help here. :(
The fglrx driver for 3D is also about %25-%50 slower than the same
card under XP. The phoronix.com site repeats the Linux graphics
benchmarks every AMD/ATI release, and has not shown a significant
performance upgrade, ever.
So for us AMD/ATI X1000 (R6) owners, we are less than second class
citizens currently.
There is work going on to support these cards in open source drivers,
and AMD/ATI have even hinted about providing code to open source, but
today it is all vapourware.
My advice:
Load the fglrx drivers, but don't use Beryl or Compbiz and don't
expect performance for gaming, and you can be happy. :)
The short version from the FAQ:
# rpm -ihv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
# yum install kmod-fglrx
Good luck!
I almost got that right. :)
Please see today's article for better clarification that I can do.
Especially the summary on page 4:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=730&num=4
