[PLUG] ATI/Sapphire Radeon 9550 Driver
Paul Mullen
pm at nellump.net
Sun Aug 19 23:52:05 UTC 2007
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 04:29:06PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 32
> Modes "1440x900" "1280x960" "1024x768"
> EndSubsection
>
> EndSection
>
> Is there something that I've missed?
The 'radeon' driver manpage mentions an option called "PanelSize",
which might be helpful if the X server is truly not correctly
detecting the display size (which seems unlikely).
Looking through the X.org log file should tell you what the server
thinks it's dealing with. E.g.,
$grep -n -A5 'EDID data from the display' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
507:(II) RADEON(0): EDID data from the display on port 1 ----------------------
508-(II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer: APP Model: 9c21 Serial#: 16843009
509-(II) RADEON(0): Year: 2002 Week: 5
510-(II) RADEON(0): EDID Version: 1.3
511-(II) RADEON(0): Digital Display Input
512-(II) RADEON(0): Max H-Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 32 vert.: 22
There's more in the log file than that (like screen dimensions,
supported video modes, etc.), but you get the idea.
Have you given X a chance to configure itself. Maybe it'll "just
work". Try `X -configure` as root, which should result in an
Xorg.conf.new in /root.
--
Paul
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