Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, W. Crowshaw wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:21:43AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:17, W. Crowshaw wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:28:46PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 23:17, William Crowshaw wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I would really like to get 2 monitors going [...]
> > > >
> > > > The atimisc driver doesn't support this yet.
> > > >
> > > Yep, I know. The card docs say that this is
> > > impossible as well. No, I had intended to run
> > > monitor off of /chaos/control (the 7500 built in
> > > video) and the other, larger, monitor over the ati
> > > card.
> >
> > This might work, using the fbdev driver for the control.
> >
> Exactly what I was thinking, using the much improved
> controlfb...
>
>
> > > Additionally, I thought I would say that, even
> > > though I cannot get a console or a X session using
> > > this ati connected to my Dell monitor, this isn't
> > > a problem with the card itself because 1) it behaves
> > > great on the MacOS and 2) I have three of these
> > > cards and they all behave the same way on X.
> > >
> > > Any ideas, or should I just sell the cards on e-bay?
> >
> > I'd try a newer XFree86 version first.
> >
> Really? Say it isn't so. Upgrading to debian
> unstable isn't very enticing and damn if I want to
> build another app from scratch. My debian system is
> starting to look like gentoo. Before I made the
> plunge, could you or someone else give me any
> assurances that it would be worth the trouble?
I have a similar card (ATI XClaim3D - with both the Mac and VGA ports)
and have been using it with a pretty much vanilla Woody distrubtion
(except for the kernel). When I use this kernel, I have to use the
"novideo" option (or whatever the equivalent is with BootX), and then
to get X working, my device section looks like:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Rage"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:0:14:0"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection
One other point to note is that you need to get the exact frequencies
for your monitor to be able to use it in X. I used the generic Woody
configuration, but it would not let me use my AppleVision at 1280x1024
with this card, which worked perfectly well in MacOS. It was only when
I got the monitor frequencies from Apple's Spec listings and put them
into XF86Config-4 did X work like I wanted it to.
cheers
vinai
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