[wplug] Radeon 7500 on single analog monitor

Vanco, Don don.vanco at agilysys.com
Mon Oct 6 14:57:49 EDT 2003


Christopher Galik <mailto:chris at cardiactelecom.com> scribbled on Monday,
October 06, 2003 1:26 PM:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I have a radeon 7500 in my machine at home (SuSE 8.2, XFree86 4.3.0).
> I've been having a lot of trouble getting XFree86 to work with it.  As
> far as I can tell, the problem is getting X to realize that I'm not
> using the DVI/Panel output and that my monitor is on the standard VGA
> output.  I've tried all kinds of combinations of options for the ati
> driver (PanelOff, CloneDisplay) and nothing seems to work.  Any ideas?
	
	I've had issues with another Radeon chipset with the latest Fedora
beta that includes 4.3.0 (could not get laptop to display on external port)
- using the generic SVGA server works, but hardly seems an appropriate
long-term fix.  I assume there's work to be done on the ATI drivers...

HTH
Don



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