Re: ATI Radeon 7500 Support in Sarge
There is some problems with the 7500 series of radeon cards in
laptops. On the ati site, there is no specific drivers neither for
windows or linux. Ati site sais there are differences between the
manufacturers cards, so download their drivers.
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:09:58 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone
<pfalcone@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:01:00 -0700, Gilbert, Joseph
> <jgilbert@insuresuite.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've told KDE to apply the settings on startup and logged out, logged back
> > in... even rebooted completely only to have the problem back. Is there a
> > step I'm missing... do I have to do something special to get full support
> > for my video card (ATI Radeon 7500).
>
> strange that you're encountering a problem on your video card model
> (ati radeon 7500). I do have the same card, but didn't encounter much
> problems:
>
> Try doing the configuration the debian way via dpkg-reconfigure
> xserver-xfree86. Chances are it would give you sane defaults for
> vertical and horizontal refresh rates. If you've installed the
> read-edid and discover packages it would help a lot.
>
> Debconf should configure your setup to use the ati driver. Now, to
> maximize your card's potential of 3D you'd have to provide the "Accel"
> directive in your X configuration file.
>
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> Paolo Alexis Falcone
> pfalcone@gmail.com
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