Thank you, Gustin. I managed to simply install the fglrx video driver
and control app ("apt-get install fglrx-driver fglrx-control") and
updated the /etc/X11/xorg.conf driver line to 'Driver "fglrx"'. Upon kdm
restart, I not only had a beautiful 1280 x 800 WXGA screen, but also a
lot of the instability has disappeared.Thank you for your encouragement! I'm quite happy with my ATi equipped laptop now. Hendrik Schaink Gustin Johnson wrote: > FYI, in case I have not been clear, I also have the ati 200m GPU (as > well as the ati IXP chipset on the motherboard). I do have a usable > laptop (more than usable actually) using the fglrx xorg driver. I have > not built the kernel module (for system stability reasons) so 3d does > not work. > > You can use the fglrx xorg driver that is packaged with Debian/KUBuntu > (check apt-cache search fglrx for the package name) or the one from the > ati site (convienently packaged in a .deb here: > http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/fglrx-installer.html) > > There is also an Acer Ferrari 3200 listed here: > http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/fglrx-working.html -- Hendrik M. Schaink Chief Consultant "Integrated Business Solutions & Dependable Service" InfoVision Consulting Calgary, Alberta, Canada Phone: (403) 239-0099 "The Vision: We are the partners of choice for companies and organizations that share our commitment to creating a world that is truly wise, courageous, prosperous, innovative, inclusive, sustainable and humane." --Ruben Nelson GPG Fingerprint: 1371 0927 8C3C 831F A838 C312 68BC F5DB 010D F3D7 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
