Hello all,
I recently installed a new hard drive and a Sapphire Radeon 4770 video cartd into my Opteron box. I updated F11 to be current as of yesterday then today installed the proprietary driver from ATI. The unit goes through the boot process fine up to the point where I would ordinarily log in. Then I get a squinched up band of video across the top half inch of the screen and there I sit (broken hearted as the old doggerel says.)
I have booted from the original install CD and tried several times to use the Linux Rescue startup. I discovered that there is no xorg.conf by default but managed to create an empty one and then the aticonfig --initial command overwrote it with something that looks plausible to my inexpert eye but I still can not get a usable graphic session. I could reinstall and get a working system with the default vesa driver but until the open driver now under development is in better shape I'd like to be able to use the ATI blob.
Suggestions? debugging info I can provide?
Dave
I recently installed a new hard drive and a Sapphire Radeon 4770 video cartd into my Opteron box. I updated F11 to be current as of yesterday then today installed the proprietary driver from ATI. The unit goes through the boot process fine up to the point where I would ordinarily log in. Then I get a squinched up band of video across the top half inch of the screen and there I sit (broken hearted as the old doggerel says.)
I have booted from the original install CD and tried several times to use the Linux Rescue startup. I discovered that there is no xorg.conf by default but managed to create an empty one and then the aticonfig --initial command overwrote it with something that looks plausible to my inexpert eye but I still can not get a usable graphic session. I could reinstall and get a working system with the default vesa driver but until the open driver now under development is in better shape I'd like to be able to use the ATI blob.
Suggestions? debugging info I can provide?
Dave
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