Radeon 7500

Jeremy Warren yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Sep 11 22:57:01 2002


Would it be possible to post a copy of your config file for X, I have been
trying to get it to work and seem to be running into the same problems.

Thanks in advance

Jeremy

On 9/11/02 11:35 PM, "Ron McCall" <ronald.mccall@snet.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 03:08:29PM -0400, Stefan Bruda wrote:
>> In terms of settings, I boot with no video arguments (my day to day
>> boot arguments used to contain only "hdc=ide-scsi" since I use SCSI
>> emulation for my DVD/CD/CD-W drive, with the new benh kernels not even
>> this is necessary), which I believe is equivalent to OF video.  By the
>> way, I was under the impression that OF video just means that the
>> video settings are read from OF, the kernel driver fires up anyway, am
>> I right?
> 
> Stefan,
> 
> I finally got a chance to do some more testing.  Booting with no video
> arguments at all results in a blank screen.  I vaguely remember
> something about a default resolution of 1024x768 and some default
> refresh rate that gets selected if you don't specify anything yourself.
> If your monitor can sync to this, you're all set.  If not, you get a
> blank screen.  That may be what is happening to me with my Cinema
> Display which normally runs at 1600x1024.  Not sure.
> 
> Anyway, with video=radeon:dfp, I finally got all my console problems
> resolved and was also able to re-enable the "UseFBDev" option.  All
> seems well!
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> Ron McCall
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