Can't get X to work with ATI
Giuseppe Giannuzzi
beppeg at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 13:51:03 UTC 2006
Espen Stefansen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I recently bought a new dell computer with a ATI x600 graphics-card. I
> tried installing FC4 on it, but a graphical installation is not
> possible. The monitor just goes black and the keyboard doesnt work. A
> text install on the other hand works
> fine. But booting into X, makes the screen go black again.
>
> Fedora finds both the ati card and my monitor correctly. But no matter
> what i try, everything still goes black. In
> my xorg-log it says something about "screen not found", but i dont understand why, since this should be correct.
>
>
> I've tried the xorg-driver and ati's own driver, but with no luck. The
> hints at fedorafaq.org <http://fedorafaq.org> doesn't help either.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why X won't work?
>
> Regards
> Espen
Can you pls list your hardware (motherboard, chipset, etc)
Best,
Beppe
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