Fedora 7 + Radeon 1950Pro + screen resolution and refresh problems
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Thu Aug 30 12:12:09 UTC 2007
Antoniak Adam wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have a problem with Fedora and my graphic card. Yesterday I
> installed Fedora 7 (I used every Fedora distro back from Core 1 and
> was always satisfied with it). Recently I upgraded my graphic card to
> Radeon 1950Pro and cannot make it working under Fedora.
>
> My current screen resolution is 800x600 with refreshing rate 81Mhz. I
> cannot setup higher resolution using the graphic panel. What’s more my
> monitor (NEC Multisync FE771SB) is not automatically recognized. When
> I manually configure it using the graphic panel and restart the
> system, I cannot work with Fedora as I get the warning message from my
> monitor that the refreshing rate is out of range (too high).
>
> I googled for a while and it looks like it might be the problem with
> the default ati driver under Fedora. I have “void” in my xorg.cong. I
> tried installing fglrx driver from Livna, but couldn’t start graphic
> interface unless returned to previous xorg.conf (same problem with too
> high refreshing rate during bootup). I found many posts regarding this
> matter in the web but didn’t manage to find definitive resolution to
> this problem.
>
> This list helped me in the past so I count on you guys. Any suggestions?
>
> Adam
>
> PS. In the mean time I found this:
> http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-Video-Drivers-on-Fedora-7-59919.shtml
> Will it solve my problems? I wanna give it a try when I get back home.
>
The computer errors on the side of caution when it makes a guess at your
monitor. With your F7 up goto System-Aministration-Display and give it
your password and it will come up and tell you what you have. Go to
Hardware and it will have a guess for a monitor. Change that to your
known monitor and reset the size and such. Works well.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
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