Hello,
Could somebody please guide me to installing/compiling
ati.2.
Am running RH 9.0
Full install
Dual processor Athlon 2200
Card does work with Windows XP
Does not get TV with Linux.
Thanks in advance.
Installed RH9.0 (used linux nofb at the boot: prompt)
otherwise when it tried to load X to run the installer the
system seemed to have a sync problem.
After the install completed and the system rebooted, the X
server couldn't start - message was something similar to no
suitable displays found (digging into the log files showed
that no suitable modes were found for the display that it did
find.)
I've got the machine hooked up to a TV (Mitsubishi
HD1080i/55" Widescreen (WS-55311)). Windows XP worked
fine on the hardware. I mucked around in the XF86Config
file trying a few different things (defining 640x480 mode),
setting some low hsync and vsync rates - specifically what
the XF86Config man page shows as default settings. Can't
seem to get X video on the system, text mode works
perfectly fine though.
I've also installed RH8.0 with the same results.
Both RH9.0 and 8.0 recognize the video card as a Radeon
7500 - not an AIW though...
Any words of advice would be greatly appreciated - my next
step is to go look for a suitable HCL TV Tuner card
replacement - or at least a video card that will allow me to
use my big screen as a monitor.
As a side note, I've tried hooking the TV up through S-video
and through the rca plugs (composite?) - neither makes a
difference.
I've got the box up and running using the text mode console
and I'm perfectly comfortable with the setup, but I'd really
like to have X so I can mess with some gui stuff....
I've got time to troubleshoot/work on this with someone if
it'll help.
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Redhat has switched to using new compiler, that appears to
have numerous bugs.
The unfortunate situation is that I even don't know what
breaks binary (and source!) compatibility, besides suspicion
that this is a combination of gcc 3.x issues and Redhat "fixes"
to get software working with it.
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I have the 64MB ATI Radeon 7500 AIW and have just recently
installed drm-kernel-1.100.0-4 and the GATOS
ATI-4.3.0-14.i386 driver. I've noticed nominal improvements
in games such as America's Army (in which gameplay appears
to be a great mass of massive rainbow colored polygons) with
both the new and old drivers, except with the new drivers
there are fewer screwed up polygons and more of what's
supposed to be there. Everything works as well or better
than before, except that when I log out my video drops out
and my monitor loses sync, thus forcing me to have to cold
reboot my machine. IS this an X configuration where it trys
to use a different resolution or something with the new
driver, or is it the driver itself? When I boot the
computer the startup and login screens work fine and I used
to be able to logout fine before I installed the new driver.
I don't log out much, so it's not a big deal, but I'd like
to know if there's some sort of solution. By the way, I'm
running X 4.3.0 on Fedora Core 1 on the i686 architecture.
Could using one of the older RPM files which I presume are
stable release since they don't say experimental help?
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ATI AIW Radeon 7500 (agp)
RH9.0 and RH8.0
Installed RH9.0 (used linux nofb at the boot: prompt)
otherwise when it tried to load X to run the installer the
system seemed to have a sync problem.
After the install completed and the system rebooted, the X
server couldn't start - message was something similar to no
suitable displays found (digging into the log files showed
that no suitable modes were found for the display that it did
find.)
I've got the machine hooked up to a TV (Mitsubishi
HD1080i/55" Widescreen (WS-55311)). Windows XP worked
fine on the hardware. I mucked around in the XF86Config
file trying a few different things (defining 640x480 mode),
setting some low hsync and vsync rates - specifically what
the XF86Config man page shows as default settings. Can't
seem to get X video on the system, text mode works
perfectly fine though.
I've also installed RH8.0 with the same results.
Both RH9.0 and 8.0 recognize the video card as a Radeon
7500 - not an AIW though...
Any words of advice would be greatly appreciated - my next
step is to go look for a suitable HCL TV Tuner card
replacement - or at least a video card that will allow me to
use my big screen as a monitor.
As a side note, I've tried hooking the TV up through S-video
and through the rca plugs (composite?) - neither makes a
difference.
I've got the box up and running using the text mode console
and I'm perfectly comfortable with the setup, but I'd really
like to have X so I can mess with some gui stuff....
I've got time to troubleshoot/work on this with someone if
it'll help.
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I had the same problem with an AIW Radeon 9000. For TV
displays, I've ditched the radeon drivers and gone for VESA.
Try using the following in your CF86Config
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "vesa"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 9000"
EndSection
Then provide a monitor section for your TV, for PALi (UK)
you can try the following, which gets me 800x600.
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "PAL Television"
DisplaySize 520 400
HorizSync 28.0 - 36.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
EndSection
Not sure if the HSync and VRefresh are correct for PALi, but
it works on my TV.
Good Luck.
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Whoops, should be XF86Config! :-)
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There have been numerous problems with RH 9.0.
Redhat has switched to using new compiler, that appears to
have numerous bugs.
The unfortunate situation is that I even don't know what
breaks binary (and source!) compatibility, besides suspicion
that this is a combination of gcc 3.x issues and Redhat "fixes"
to get software working with it.
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I have the 64MB ATI Radeon 7500 AIW and have just recently
installed drm-kernel-1.100.0-4 and the GATOS
ATI-4.3.0-14.i386 driver. I've noticed nominal improvements
in games such as America's Army (in which gameplay appears
to be a great mass of massive rainbow colored polygons) with
both the new and old drivers, except with the new drivers
there are fewer screwed up polygons and more of what's
supposed to be there. Everything works as well or better
than before, except that when I log out my video drops out
and my monitor loses sync, thus forcing me to have to cold
reboot my machine. IS this an X configuration where it trys
to use a different resolution or something with the new
driver, or is it the driver itself? When I boot the
computer the startup and login screens work fine and I used
to be able to logout fine before I installed the new driver.
I don't log out much, so it's not a big deal, but I'd like
to know if there's some sort of solution. By the way, I'm
running X 4.3.0 on Fedora Core 1 on the i686 architecture.
Could using one of the older RPM files which I presume are
stable release since they don't say experimental help?