Newbie here with ATI card

Michael R. Head burner at suppressingfire.org
Mon Oct 29 07:50:10 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 11:31 +0800, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> Hi, 
> here is one more newbie struggling with the ATI card settings ;-)
> 
> I already tried xrandr & urandr:
> xrandr (command line) shows quite well
> urander (GUI) ends with error / already reported to the author
> 
> "aticonfig"
> It shows "not installed" and I am downloading now ;-)
> 
> How shall I set for my configuration:
> Notebook Thinkpad w/ATi Radeon 7500: 1400x1050
> docked: external Belina 17.40.10 TFT 1280x1024
> 
> Advice and guidance is hot awaited & appreciated ;-))

You don't want to use the fglrx drivers. Your hardware is only supported
by the open source radeon driver that is installed and configured by
default.

You can try using System/Administration/Screens and Graphics to
configure multiple monitors, but it's not well supported by the driver
and (in my experience) requires the machine to be shut down when
attempting to attach an external monitor. Hopefully this will be
changing in a release or two.

> Cheers. svobi
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 16:38 -0600, debian wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://picasaweb.google.com/demiri.head.wedding
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