X trouble with 23" flat panel

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto fabbione at canonical.com
Tue Oct 5 11:12:58 UTC 2004


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Ronald van Engelen wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I can't get my apple 23" hd cinema display to work with the ati driver.
| The screen goes blank after starting X, regardless of the specified
| resolution (tried each individual resolution ranging from 1920x1200
| (native) to 640x480).
|
| I did a 'apt-get --purge remove xserver-xfree86' and after that a
| reinstall to get the probings right.
|
| The graphics card used is the Ati Radeon 9600XT, the display is
| connected through DVI, but this and more can be read in the attached
| logfile (.ati).
|
| The only way to get 'a' picture in X is by using the vesa driver. This
| driver switches the resolution back to 1024x768.
|
| The config file stayed the same during my trials; I only changed the
| driver. I made a tarball of the logs and config file because of the
| post limit of 40K.

hmmmm Can you try to comment the BusID line in the Section "Device"
and/or change it to PCI:1:0:1?

There was a warning message in log.ati that i have never seen before.
Perhaps that's the problem.

Fabio

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