Greetings!
Excuse me if this is the wrong place for technical questions.
I have the Asus EAH TOP 4850 ATI card, connected with a HDMI cable to my TV screen, wich also have HDMI on it's end. ( also trid with several other monitor's.
Have tried this setup in Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and many many other distro's.
Problems:
1) Screen flickering on and off, blanc screen 3 seconds, then in 0,5 seconds you can see the desktop.
2) You can see the OS during boot. Also BIOS screen is visible, when you get to "starting gnome..." you get back to point 1 in this post.
3) extremely large fonts, so desktop is impossible to navigate through.
When using VESA driver you will get 640x480 resolution at most, but no more colours than 16.
So... none of them have worked correctly, and after 3 months of intense and hard work to figure out what to do, I gave up. This was about one year ago..
My idea is that you cannot get any signal because the HDMI signal is encrypted..? And Linux cannot decrypt this signal?
However.. in Window$ this isn't even an issue.. not in XP or win7 anyway..And the card works just fine.
Is there any point to try out Linux with this GPU now?
Thanks for any help
Excuse me if this is the wrong place for technical questions.
I have the Asus EAH TOP 4850 ATI card, connected with a HDMI cable to my TV screen, wich also have HDMI on it's end. ( also trid with several other monitor's.
Have tried this setup in Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and many many other distro's.
Problems:
1) Screen flickering on and off, blanc screen 3 seconds, then in 0,5 seconds you can see the desktop.
2) You can see the OS during boot. Also BIOS screen is visible, when you get to "starting gnome..." you get back to point 1 in this post.
3) extremely large fonts, so desktop is impossible to navigate through.
When using VESA driver you will get 640x480 resolution at most, but no more colours than 16.
So... none of them have worked correctly, and after 3 months of intense and hard work to figure out what to do, I gave up. This was about one year ago..
My idea is that you cannot get any signal because the HDMI signal is encrypted..? And Linux cannot decrypt this signal?
However.. in Window$ this isn't even an issue.. not in XP or win7 anyway..And the card works just fine.
Is there any point to try out Linux with this GPU now?
Thanks for any help
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