ATI Radeon Express 200

[gymsmoke]

Thanks, Mike.  I'll give this a go...

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 15:13 -0500, Michael R Head wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:44 -0500, gymsmoke wrote:
> > I just got my son up and running on Ubuntu 5.10...
> > His machine has the ATI Radeon Express200 video on board.
> > I had to alter his xorg.conf file with Option "noaccel" in order to get
> > X working at all, but his screen resolution is set at 640x480 with no
> > additional resolutions available (which makes it impossible to setup
> > email, aside from just being annoying).  I am having him send me his
> > xorg.conf file, but don't have it yet.  Any input as to how to get this
> > set right would be helpful.  I am a little new at this, but it was alot
> > of fun listening to my son try and figure out how to move to a new
> > directory...
> 
> He probably needs to install fglrx-driver and tell X to use fglrx,
> instead of ati or radeon.
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install fglrx-driver
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> 
> (making sure to select fglrx when appropriate)
> 
> mike
> 
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> Michael R Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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