[F18][ATI Rage XL] Problems with install on ATI Rage XP video driver

Aaron Gray aaronngray.lists at gmail.com
Fri Apr 5 05:38:49 UTC 2013


Its quite strange.

The Samsung monitor is 1920 x 1200

Rage XL is 1600 x 1200

Xorg.0.log does not really say much of any help AFAICR. I'll post a copy
later when back at the machine.


On 5 April 2013 02:55, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 04/04/13 06:41 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:
>
>> Well theres the "aliased" garbage at the top of the screen in normal
>> graphics boot as with F18, but the Fedora "cup filling" icon is there
>> and showing the 'F'. Now its gone back to showing the "aliased" garbage.
>> And now the oversized graphics, with the top of the display wrapping
>> bottom to the bottom still with the garbage at the top.
>> Ooh, this is looking a bit better - move the mouse and the mouse
>> cursor appears and the whole things shrunk to normal proportions, but
>> still with the garbage at the top and the top wrapped round to the
>> bottom and lateral shift and wrap 2/5ths of the screen from left to right.
>> So it looks like its either got the wrong driver or there is a memory
>> paging problem with the driver.
>>
>
> ...or it's set the display to a mode it isn't really capable of. We would
> probably benefit from a look at Xorg.0.log.
>
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