still no resolution solution..

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Wed Aug 12 04:28:42 UTC 2009


On 08/11/2009 11:40 PM, charles zeitler wrote:
> i just downloaded ati's driver (it's proprietary ...).

fglrx doesn't work with F11 yet.  No support from ATI yet for the newer
kernels.

> i also have radeonhd  ...i haven't figured out how to set it up
> as the current driver...

edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and replace:

	driver	"radeon"

with:

	driver  "radeonhd"

You may (or may not) have to add or fiddle with other options in the
file depending on what you want working.

> radeon worked fine on fedora 10...:<..

I went from using fglrx in F9 to using radeon in F11.  Most stuff works
(except for googleearth, which was problematic anyways with ATI, seems
googleearth is the perfect answer to the question:  "How can I hang my
ATI xorg session hard so that the mouse and keyboard don't respond
anymore?)  I have a Mobility Radeon x1600 in this laptop.

>> Kind of surprised that nobody else with better knowledge of ATI hardware
>> hasn't chimed in....
>>
>> Oh, I don't suppose you could still boot to your F10 environment to
>> compare the X logs?
> 
> unfortunately i lost all previous context...  including a working xorg.conf!
>> Ed
>>
> 
> in desperation, i put the (xorg generated) xorg.conf in /etc/X11
> (i thought the blank screen when testing it was bad news) anyway,
> it seems x does read it- but seems to ignore my request for higher
> resolution, & for use of a different driver:
> 
> 
> [Fedora at cthuga bin]$ sudo cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
>         FontPath     "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
>         FontPath     "built-ins"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "dri"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "dri2"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "record"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>         #DisplaySize      320   240     # mm
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         VendorName   "DEL"
>         ModelName    "DELL M782"
>         HorizSync    30.0 - 85.0
>         VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
>         Option      "DPMS"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>         ### Available Driver options are:-
>         ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>         ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>         ### [arg]: arg optional
>         #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
> ............................................................snippy..........................................................
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "radeonhd"
>         VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
>         BoardName   "RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650]"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Card0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     1
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     4
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     8
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     15
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     16
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes  "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection

Do you actually run X at all of these different depths?????
I have a:

	DefaultDepth	24

in my Screen section....

> starts up at 1024x768, xrandr doesn't show 1600x1200, lsmod shows
> "radeon" loaded....

> any thoughts?

Look at your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.  It has all the gory details on
Xorg's decision making and should point to towards what failed and
what's not working and what Xorg decided to do about it....

Read it carefully.  The errors prety much stand out (or at least they do
to someone who's been reading them for > 10 years now...).

Make sure Xorg is running at the same depth you think it is....

> thanx again...
> charles zeitler

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