Radeon Driver question

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On 09.02.2014 00:42, Max wrote:
> Is there some sort of configuration that needs to be done with the 
> Radeon Driver to get resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024 ? My system 
> looks like crap at that resolution but its seems to be the best I can get.
> 
> The above is the only question that I have, the below rounds out why I 
> am asking and the other options I had considered or explored.
> 
> The card I am using is a Radeon 6570 which I know is capable of better 
> resolution than what I am getting.
> 
>   I am not sure what happened as I have been out of touch with this for 
> sometime. I have been using an Nvidia card in the last few years and 
> that did the trick.
> 
> When it decided to fail I decided to go back to an ATI card, since they 
> have an open source driver.
> 
> Aticonfig doesn't appear to work for the radeon driver. I saw the 
> radeontool but that didn't appear to help either but frankly I am not 
> sure how to use it. There is no manual page for it apparently and I am 
> not sure which registers to set nor what to set them too.
> 
> I tried the AMD/ATI proprietary driver but it fails to build the kernel 
> module then asks for a reboot. Reboot and presto all there is, is an 
> error message. I had to uninstall it to get back to runlevel 5.  In any 
> case I also gather that kmod-radeon or catalyst is no longer available. 
> Its a shame but what can you do.
> 
>   So I am back to my original question: Is there some sort of 
> configuration that needs to be done with the Radeon Driver to get 
> resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024 ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Max
> 

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
"xrandr", "PreferredMode", etc.


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