Mani A wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Bill Davidsen
<davidsen(a)tmr.com> wrote:
> Mani A wrote:
>> In the boot screen
>> Press esc, then tab
>> add resolution=1600x1200 as a boot option
>>
>> and any other 'boot time kernel option' that may be relevant.
>>
>> On radeon HD 36xx cards, too the radeon driver works 'out of box'
> What I have is this (from lspci):
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV535 [Radeon X1650
> series] (rev 9e)
> 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV535 [Radeon X1650
> Series] (rev 9e)
>
It should work well with driver radeonhd and possibly radeon
Check man radeon
Boot to runlevel 3, modprobe radeonhd,
create a suitable xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 (copy from sda for eg)
I'll look at this, previous releases have generated xorg.conf at install. I have
seen posts indicating that this new X didn't need it. Seems like a complex thing
for the average user.
Then 'startkde' (no options allowed)
no kde here, but I get the idea. ;-)
Repeat with 'radeon'
Thanks for the suggestions.
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