Re: radeon 8500, ydl2.3, XFree 4.2.0

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, R Shapiro wrote:

Is there any way to get X going with a Radeon 8500 agp card? Ideally
accelerated, but fbdev would be acceptable as long as the colors etc
are reasonable (which they aren't using either the radeon or the fbdev
driver in XFree4.2.0-6.30e).

I'm running the standard YDL2.3 kernel (2.4.19-4a) and
XFree4.2.0-6.30e. The Radeon card is being used to drive an Apple
lcd17 through a DVIator.

Related question: what's the right 'video=' kernel arg for this
configuration? I haven't found one that works, but I can get console
video going by blind-typing 'fbset -a 1280x1024-60'

Have you tried putting the fbset in the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit or rc.local,
possibly in a loop for each vt with a chvt before the fbset?  At least
it would be better than typing blind if it works.

						-Bill

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