[lug] ATI Radeon Video Card

[Riggs, Rob]

Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should kill the Xserver.

Xconfigurator is still shipped with Red Hat. You can invoke that from the
command line to custom configure your card and monitor settings.

You are booting into runlevel 3 and using startx, rather that booting into
runlevel 5 and using gdm, aren't you? If not, edit /etc/inittab and set the
default runlevel to 3 (find the "initdefault" line).

-Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Robinson [mailto:FRobinson at sandcherry.com]
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 11:40 AM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: [lug] ATI Radeon Video Card


Questions:
I'm having difficulty getting X Windows, GNOME desktop, to launch after
installing KRUD 7.2.  I've installed 7.1 and 7.2 approximately 8 times at
this point, trying different combinations of ATI Radeon video cards in the
list and differing the RAM settings.  In Linux installations in generations
past this was a problem with refresh rates, etc., but those parameters were
configurable in the old installation.  Any suggestions on how to tune my ATI
Radeon card outside of the installation process?

Perhaps someone could provide me with a kill instruction to exit X (when
X/GNOME fails the system stalls and I'm left with a geometric helter skelter
colored screen) and configure X from the command line?  It's been a while
since I've experienced this behavior, but again in generations past when X
failed you were returned to text/command mode.

Or, even better, if someone has successfully installed the AT Radeon and can
advise how they did it, with 7.1 or 7.2, that would be sweet!


Fred Robinson
Sr. Systems Engineer
SandCherry networks
http://www.sandcherry.com/
2845 Wilderness Pl.
Boulder, CO 80301
720.272.5201
frobinson at sandcherry.com 

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/psel/ps0004a.html

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