[lug] ATI Radeon Video Card

[D. Stimits]

"Riggs, Rob" wrote:
> 
> 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).

Another thing that helps in a pinch, if you are in runlevel 5 and set a
bad setting and it is cycling, the ctrl-alt-backspace will kill the
current server but still open a new one with the same bad settings. If
you have a console prompt opened up somewhere, by root, and type in the
line "init 3", but do NOT hit the return button, it will be ready to go
to console-only mode with a tap of the enter key. While the server
starts cycling, you can still do a ctrl-alt-F1 (or whichever console) to
get to your root console, and hit enter before it cycles back...you'll
go to runlevel 3 and console.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> -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
> 
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