ATI Radeon X1650pro 512mb DDR2 PCIE16

[Xavior]

Can anyone walk me through configuring this card on FC6 ?

I have a Dell 24" Wide Screen Monitor,
I can't seem to get a proper aspect, images look streched.
Dell says it runs best at 1920x1200, but I like it better at 1600x900,
but it won't work. It doesn't seem to know it's a wide screen.

Thanks,
Xav

[mwette]

I'm not sure I understand your problem. What is the current resolution?
(In a terminal you can type "xdpyinfo" or check the GNOME menus.)

Also, in terminal type "grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf" and post results here.

[Xavior]

# grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Driver "kbd"
Driver "vesa"

Thanks,
Xav

[Xavior]

The main problem is that, everything is stretched, I can't seem to get any settings to work.
I need to setup the right drivers for this card.
I went to ATI, downloaded the driver, followed their instructions but it didn't work.

Thanks,
Xav

[mwette]

The problem is that you are running the vesa driver, which only
supports a few modes. You need to install the proprietary ATI
drivers to run other resolutions (I have X1300 with 1920x1200).
Check out the thread entitles "Getting ATI ..." in the
Howto category. There are two options: getting the drivers from
ati.amd.com or from livna. Check out that thread.

[Xavior]

Downloaded the driver, followed the directions to install it,
the ATI control panel says:
Failed to execute child process "fireglcontrolpanel" (No such file or directory)

Is there another way to install this properly ?

Thanks,
Xav

[schotty]

Downloaded the driver, followed the directions to install it,
the ATI control panel says:
Failed to execute child process "fireglcontrolpanel" (No such file or directory)

Is there another way to install this properly ?

Thanks,
Xav
http://rpm.livna.org/

Go there and add their repo. Then follow the instructions to add and enable the ATI drivers.

[mwette]

I would advise not to install the livna stuff at this point.
I don't think you need the fireglcontrol panel unless you need
special behavior with dual screens. Did you run the "aticonfig"
command with the specified arguments? If so, then your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file should have "Driver "fglrx"" and you
should be able to change the display resultion with the GNOME
path [System]->[Preferences]->[Screen Resolution], I believe.

[EDIT: If you want to run fireglcontrolpanel do a "yum install qt-devel"]

[Xavior]

My xorg.conf :
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "Dell"
Option "ModelName" "Dell 2407WFP (Digital)"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "DesktopSetup" "single"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1000" "1600x900" "1440x900"
EndSubSection
EndSection

I put the modes in there, but I can not see them as choices in the [System]->[Preferences]->[Screen Resolution],
It has a bunch of options that are all the wrong ratio, like 1024x768.

Thanks,
Xav

[Xavior]

hwconf says :

-
class: VIDEO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
desc: "ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 71e6"
vendorId: 1002
deviceId: 71e6
subVendorId: 1002
subDeviceId: 2353
pciType: 1
pcidom: 0
pcibus: 1
pcidev: 0
pcifn: 1
-
class: VIDEO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
desc: "ATI Technologies Inc RV530LE [Radeon X1600]"
vendorId: 1002
deviceId: 71c6
subVendorId: 1002
subDeviceId: 2352
pciType: 1
pcidom: 0
pcibus: 1
pcidev: 0
pcifn: 0
-

does this mean I have two video cards ?
my motherboard(D945GNT) says that when you use the Express16 slot it disables the onboard video card...

Is there any way to disable the second video card through these files(hwconf, xorg.conf etc...) ???

Thanks,
Xav

[mwette]

hwconf says :

-
class: VIDEO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
desc: "ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 71e6"
vendorId: 1002
deviceId: 71e6
subVendorId: 1002
subDeviceId: 2353
pciType: 1
pcidom: 0
pcibus: 1
pcidev: 0
pcifn: 1
-
class: VIDEO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
desc: "ATI Technologies Inc RV530LE [Radeon X1600]"
vendorId: 1002
deviceId: 71c6
subVendorId: 1002
subDeviceId: 2352
pciType: 1
pcidom: 0
pcibus: 1
pcidev: 0
pcifn: 0
-

does this mean I have two video cards ?
my motherboard(D945GNT) says that when you use the Express16 slot it disables the onboard video card...

Is there any way to disable the second video card through these files(hwconf, xorg.conf etc...) ???

Thanks,
Xav

I don't think so. Look at your card. Does it have two DVI connectors?
(I get the same type of info for my X1300. Yet my onboard GPU is nvidia.)

[Xavior]

Yes it does have two dvi connectors

[mwette]

There are instructions in the "Getting ATI ..." thread in the HOWTO forum.
The first post has a summary of commands to get the ATI drivers installed.