Hello. On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 11:15, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Wed, April 5, 2006 5:20 am, Francois MICHONNEAU wrote: > > I am a very new user of Linux (I set up it this week-end) and I am > > struggling to configure the display of my laptop. Actually, the > > native resolution of my screen is 1400x1050, but when I choose it in > > "resizing and rotation of the screen" (in KDE 3.3) a lot of strange > > things occurs (the cursor of my mouse is shadowed by a black square, > > the desktop is continuous -i.e. the right edge of the windows appears > > on the left edge of the desktop-, there is a black line on the bottom > > of the desktop, etc...). My video card is an ATI Mobility Radeon > > 7500, so in "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" I chose the ati > > driver. However, I read that the radeon driver is often more > > appropriate but it does not appear in the list of the available > > drivers. Could someone indicate me what to do or to read in order to > > find the way to solve my problem? > > The X config file is just a text file (/etc/X11/XF86Config). Open it > in your favourite text editor and change the video driver from "ati" > to "radeon". As simple as that. This did not help. The ati driver is just a wrapper around all the different ati drivers and if it detects an radeon card it loads the radeon module. regards Stefan Schmidt
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