Newbie here with ATI card

[debian]

On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 23:20 +0100, Nelson Montague wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> This is Nelson,
> >From Texas
> 
> New to Linux, new to Ubuntu, and new to this list! Welcome everybody!
> 
> I have an ATI Radeon 9600 RV 350 card... and the problem is I cannot
> do Gutsy to run it above 60Hz.
> 
> I installed the recommended restricted ATI driver,
> 
> I als o found this resource
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FixVideoResolutionHowto
> 
> Changed my monitor refresh rate in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> to 30-96 from the previous 30-70
> 
> Then I went down to the section "ATI - Refresh Rate & Resolution QuickFix"
> 
> Applied the recommended changes:
> 
> sudo  aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
> sudo  aticonfig --resolution=1600x1200,1280x1024,1024x768
> sudo  aticonfig --force-monitor=crt1,notv
> 
> The second one,
> sudo  aticonfig --resolution=1600x1200,1280x1024,1024x768
> did not work, sent the following error message:
> Error: Section # expected
> aticonfig: parsing the command-line failed.
> 
> Also applied
> sudo  aticonfig hsync=Screen0,30-96
> 
> So, that's what I did, and my eyes still blinking of the 60Hz refresh rate...
> 
> What shall I do next?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Nelson
> 

Well, when your using aticonfig, your line should look something like
this:
sudo  aticonfig --resolution=0,1600x1200,1280x1024,1024x768


Note that the 0 has to be there.

What the 0 does is it tells Aticonfig which monitor you want it to
configure (0 is your first monitory, 1 is your second, so on and so on)

Here is what you had:
sudo  aticonfig --resolution=1600x1200,1280x1024,1024x768

WIth out the 0, it causes the error you mentioned. 

Retry the aticonfig with the string i gave you and see if that makes any
difference

--cj