The radeon x-server works. It has no 3D acceleration support but it displays very well otherwise.<br><br>The ATI drivers (fglrx) are extremely unstable (on every platform I've tried them on) and provide good cause to buy NVidia products.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Marc Ferguson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcferguson@gmail.com">marcferguson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey Folks,<div><br></div><div>How can I configure my x server via the terminal? Here's some background.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/t-series/introduction.php?S_ID=17" target="_blank">http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/t-series/introduction.php?S_ID=17</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Marc Ferguson<br>
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