ATI Rage Mobility with Xorg - anyone got this working

[Scot L. Harris]

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 19:29, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Does anyone have a laptop with ATI Rage Mobility video "card"
> working properly with FC-2, ie with Xorg ?
> 
> I can't get this working at 1024 x 480 x 16bpp,
> as it did with FC-1 (and all previous Redhat distributions).
> 
> I posted a bug report several months ago
> but it seemed to fall into a black hole.
> 

My Dell Latitude Cpx laptop has the ATI Rage Mobility chip set for its
video.  Have been using it with FC2 for quite a while now.

Below is a portion of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.  I don't think it is
100% accurate, I have tried off and on to get a higher resolution on the
display.  However I think the display I have is only good for 1024x768,
as such the display settings I have in the xorg.conf file don't really
match.  

However, everything seems to work with these settings for me.

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Dell 1600x1200 Laptop Display Panel"
        HorizSync    31.5 - 90.0
        VertRefresh  59.0 - 85.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection
                                                                                                        
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "ati"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "ATI Rage Mobility"
EndSection
                                                                                                        
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960"
"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768"
"800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
                Modes    "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960"
"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection
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