Sound and vision problems

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 08:38:50PM +0300, Andy Jarvis wrote:

> Post-install my main issues were, as with many other users, no sound
> (fixed by adjusting the sliders on the sound mixer)

Please send the output of the "amixer" command and perhaps this can be
fixed.  The existing code seems to correctly set a default volume level for
most cards, but apparently not all.

> The problem with the display settings is more complex. As my graphics card
> is an ATI Radion 8500, I tried to install the fglrx driver with all it's
> accompanying fun and games. I followed the advice of the Wiki and
> installed the linux-restricted package. Now xresprobe shows the 1280 x
> 1084 resolution I want but I still cannot use it. When I now attempt to
> access the screen resolution tool, I see the following error: The X Server
> does not support the XRandR extension.  Runtime resolution changes to the
> display size are not available. I have therefore no idea how to move
> forward from here. As a relative newcomer to Linux I have to say: Help!

You'll need to reconfigure the X server to allow the new resolution; the
instructions on the wiki do not account for the situation where you might
want to adjust the resolution at the same time.

There is a little dance that is necessary to force it to re-probe your
hardware and write a new configuration file, overwriting the one that you
have edited; I am not sure where it is documented at the moment.

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 - mdz