Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] Radeon (kernel 2.6.7) doesn't show the correct resolution

[Otto W. <ott...@or...>]

Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> I am the happy owner of an (ATI Radeon 9200-based) HIS Excalibur 9200 ViVo
> 
Where I live the HIS Excalibur 9200 Vivo isn't available, only the HIS
Excalibur 9200 SE which is much slower. There is a Sapphire Radeon 9600
SE and the Sapphire Radeon 9600 which is 1.5 as expensive but I have no
information about them.

> However, I doubt that support for your current Radeon 7500 card cannot be
> brought back, especially if it works OK with 2.4 kernels. Changing hardware to
> workaround software issues doesn't sound like a good policy ;)
> 
I currently don't have the time to care much for a good policy (see
"http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net"). I'd really like to finally delve
into the kbuild facility of the 2.6 kernels and document it here, so
everybody can try out new framebuffer drivers or build the DirectFB
fusion driver. But as long as my problem persist I can't switch to the
2.6 kernel. Of course a patch which solves my problems would be much better.

> [2] I need a patch to be able to force 1280x1024 at boot, but I guess it's
> 
A really simple workaround, which works with any framebuffer, is to put
a "/usr/sbin/fbset -a 1280x1024-60" into your "/etc/profile". Before I
switched to DVI cable I had this for years with at least 3 different
graphic cards, of course first only with "800x600".

O. Wyss

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