On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:31:09 -0500, Jim wrote:
> I have got a ATI Radeon 9200SE RV280 adapter.
> I have ran all the drivers for the ATI cards
What does that mean? ("ran all the drivers")
You installed F8 successfully, then bootet the first time.
What happened?
> but when it tryies to
> startx the card goes totally out of sink.
When exactly?
Have you tried "system-config-display --reconfig" yet?
> I even installed the kmod-fglrx and setup xorg.conf.
This only adds to the confusion. It is more interesting what you get on an
up-to-date Fedora 8 with system-config-display and no added 3rd party
packages that might mess up the installation and configuration.
> I did a lspci -v and comes up as:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller : ATI Radeon 9200SE RV280
> 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Radeon 9200SE RV280
Don't use -v when you cut off the verbose output.
The ATI Radeon 9200 series is pretty normal and widespread.
xorg-x11-drv-ati is correct for those cards.
> Why would it show it as two different devices ??
Is it dual-head capable?
