Request: Working Radeon 7000 XF86Config-4

[Marc Stergionis]

Sometime around, no, let's make it exactly at 1:10 PM -0500 on 
11/7/02, Jim Steed transmitted this wisdom:
>I currently am having loads of trouble getting working video with my Radeon
>7000 PCI card and a low-cost VGA monitor (with a Windtunnel Dual G4).  I've
>tried kernel args radeon:dfp and radeon:1024x768-16@60 and a whole host of
>variants of the radeon arg to no success.  The only arg that works at all is
>radeon:ofonly, which gives me working X but so few colors that it isn't very
>usable.
>
>I've noticed that the "Device" section in the XF86Config-4 file I've been
>generating looks bogus.  It seems generic, and the driver is listed as
>"fbdev", which I doubt is correct.  If anyone has a working system that uses
>a Radeon 7000 Mac Edition card (possibly even with a CRT monitor), would you
>please post or send me directly a copy of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file?

Jim,

Don't know if you've heard back on this but here's what I did on my 8600/G4:

Opened the box and moved the R7000 to PCI slot 1 (a how-to said  it 
had to be in that slot for *G4s*, so just wanted to make sure).

Installed with "no video driver checked" (because this box, of 
course, has an  8600 ROM,  I have to use BootX).

First try was *very* weird video. Literally my install desktop was 
confined to the left half of the screen and the background was pink 
instead of blue, with the gui colors similarly skewed. Decided to use 
text install instead and that looked and worked right.

Finished, configured the install. I  asked for Magnavox 17" (I have 
an *old* MagnaScan 17  monitor but, of course, that's probably not 
the model they meant) 1024x768, 24 bit. Rebooted. Of course that 
didn't work.

Restarted a few times with "no video" sometimes checked, sometimes 
not. Same old.

Rebooted and, as root, ran the command "xconfigurator" which, of 
course, gets you back to video setup prompts. Tried quite a few 
variations before proceeding to "startx," most of which produced that 
skewed color. Sometimes, I'd  get boot messages going by, then a gray 
screen with lots of drive access before hearing that nifty KDE 
percussion intro, ie. got  to  KDE desktop.  But no video.

Of course, the solution was to boot, run  Xconfigurator, then select 
"fail safe" for video. Looks awesome.

:)

-ms
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