[ale] Trying to use ATI Radeon On-Board Video

[Jim Kinney]

The radeon x-server works. It has no 3D acceleration support but it displays
very well otherwise.

The ATI drivers (fglrx) are extremely unstable (on every platform I've tried
them on) and provide good cause to buy NVidia products.

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey Folks,
>
> How can I configure my x server via the terminal? Here's some background.
>
> My PCI Express card (nVidia GeForce 8600 GT) died last week so I've
> resorted to using the on-board video port. My motherboard is a Biostar
> TA690G AM2 5.x and their site says that it's an ATI Radeon 1200 series port.
> Ironically; I can load into my Windows partitions (Windows Vista: Home
> Premium) fine... and I can even play video games (Battlefield 2, Star Wars
> Galaxies, etc). My main concern, though, is the Linux partition. I can't
> seem to setup the right xorg.conf configuration. To be honest, I'm not that
> great in configuring x via the terminal. I've tried "Xorg -configure" as
> suggested by the Xorg site, but that doesn't work. I tried replacing the old
> "nv" entry with "ati", but that didn't work.
>
> The result is the monitor is very pixelated and I can't navigate or really
> see where I am. I can see my mouse, but it's pretty much useless. Once I
> "startx" the x server, I can't Alt+Ctrl+Backspace back into the terminal. I
> have to do a reboot into runlevel 3 and try again. Thanks for any help.
>
> http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/t-series/introduction.php?S_ID=17
>
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> Marc Ferguson
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