rata refresh lcd

- si ce sa modific in xorg?
- am incercat si cu driverul proprietar ati cel mai nou, degeaba

ce am gasit pe forum la mandriva.com, scris de un admin prin iulie 2007 : "Sorry for being unclear.

'Free driver' refers to the X.org native driver for ATI cards. I call it the 'free driver' because it's free-as-in-speech. You could also call it 'radeon'.

The alternative is what I'd call the 'proprietary driver', which is the closed-source driver made by ATI themselves and available from http://www.ati.com. You could also call it 'fglrx'.

The situation with your card is that the 'free driver' - the one in X.org - simply doesn't support your card at all. The proprietary driver should, but you're having trouble with it.

The reason the x1300-x1800 entry works is actually quite simple. It is configured to let you choose between one of two drivers. If your repositories are set up to make the proprietary driver available, it will ask you if you want to use it. If you answer 'yes', it will configure the proprietary driver. If the proprietary driver is not available or you answer 'no', it falls back to a backup driver: not the free driver, since that doesn't work with these cards, but fbdev, which is a general-purpose driver that uses the graphics card's framebuffer. Generic drivers like fbdev (also 'vga' and 'vesa') will work with a very wide range of cards, including cards that don't work with any other driver, but because they're generic and not tailored for the hardware, they are much slower and lack certain features.

The free driver is in the x11-driver-video-ati package. You would enable it by installing that package then manually selecting the 'ati' driver in XFdrake or editing xorg.conf and changing the Driver setting to "ati", not "fglrx" or "fbdev". But I'll save you the trouble: it really, truly won't work. It has absolutely no support for Radeons later than the X850. It doesn't even recognize their PCI IDs. It has no idea what to do with them.

the driver in 2007 Spring does include support for the cards in question, that's the thing  it's not that there's no support, it's that there's some kind of bug, but we're not getting far in identifying it

yeah, me being aware of it means the company is aware of it.

it's possible that it's actually a problem with the ATI drivers themselves, in which case we need to make ATI aware of it, but we haven't established that yet.

my plan to tackle this is basically to get an ATI driver maintainer (we don't actually currently have one - staffing changes) and then get the latest version of the ATI driver uploaded to 2007 Spring /non-free/testing. at which point I will get you guys to try it out and see whether it sorts out this problem. timeframe on this depends entirely on when I manage to persuade Anne to appoint an ATI driver maintainer...

that's odd, One and Powerpack use the same proprietary driver and configuration routines, so the result should be the same.

the problem with the backup driver is that the good Radeon driver (radeon) doesn't work with X1xxx series cards yet, so we have to use a generic fallback driver. In 2007 Spring it was set to fbdev, in Cooker I've just changed it to vesa, which should be a bit better. But both suck compared to a dedicated driver...

Can you maybe post /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log from a failed attempt to start X with the proprietary driver? thanks."

cu alte cuvinte e un bug care pare a fi de la driverul proprietar ati, sunt afectate toata seria de placi x1300-x1900, mor de ciuda, m-am chinuit sa cumpar ceva mai bun si acum numai pot folosi mandriva; cea mai mare rezolutie cu care merge este 1280x1024 (si se vede naspa), am incercat mandriva 2008.0 beta si fedora 7 , ambele imi baga implicit rezolutia 1280x1024, interesant e ca dupa ce am incercat sa "fortez" si am bagat in xorg.conf 60 la vertical sync si la rezolutie am lasat 1680x1050 ci 60 hz, nu imi mai aprea blank screen cand intram ci imi intra in mod text; cica cineva a reusit sa bage 1680x1050 cu 55 hz, o sa incerc sa vad daca mere, o sa postez mai acusi si xorg.conf-ul meu.

am doar optiunea la Generic - Flat Panel 1680x1050, o aleg, dar degeaba, tot blank screen, asa arta xorg.conf:

"# File generated by XFdrake (rev 142098)

# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"
    # font server independent of the X server to render fonts.
    FontPath "unix/:-1"
   
    # minimal fonts to allow X to run without xfs
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    #DontZap # disable (server abort)
    #DontZoom # disable / (resolution switching)
    AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
    Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
    Load "extmod"
    Load "type1"
    Load "freetype"
    Load "glx" # 3D layer
    Load "dri" # direct rendering
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard1"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse1"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "monitor1"
    VendorName "Plug'n Play"
    ModelName "L204WT "
    HorizSync 28-83
    VertRefresh 56-75
   
    # Monitor preferred modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 65.3 kHz hsync, ratio 16/10)
    ModeLine "1680x1050" 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 +hsync -vsync
   
    # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
    # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
    ModeLine "768x576"    50.00  768  832  846 1000  576  590  595  630
   
    # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
    ModeLine "768x576"    63.07  768  800  960 1024  576  578  590  616
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName "ATI Radeon X1300 - X1950"
    Driver "fglrx"
    Option "DPMS"
   
    # === disable PnP Monitor  ===
    #Option                              "NoDDC"
    # === disable/enable XAA/DRI ===
    Option "no_accel"                  "no"
    Option "no_dri"                    "no"
    # === FireGL DDX driver module specific settings ===
    # === Screen Management ===
    Option "DesktopSetup"              "0x00000000"
    Option "MonitorLayout"              "AUTO, AUTO"
    Option "IgnoreEDID"                "off"
    Option "HSync2"                    "unspecified"
    Option "VRefresh2"                  "unspecified"
    Option "ScreenOverlap"              "0"
    # === TV-out Management ===
    Option "NoTV"                      "yes"   
    Option "TVStandard"                "NTSC-M"   
    Option "TVHSizeAdj"                "0"   
    Option "TVVSizeAdj"                "0"   
    Option "TVHPosAdj"                  "0"   
    Option "TVVPosAdj"                  "0"   
    Option "TVHStartAdj"                "0"   
    Option "TVColorAdj"                "0"   
    Option "GammaCorrectionI"          "0x00000000"
    Option "GammaCorrectionII"          "0x00000000"
    # === OpenGL specific profiles/settings ===
    Option "Capabilities"              "0x00000000"
    # === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===
    Option "VideoOverlay"              "on"
    # === OpenGL Overlay ===
    # Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay
    #      will be disabled automatically
    Option "OpenGLOverlay"              "off"
    Option "CenterMode"                "off"
    # === QBS Support ===
    Option "Stereo"                    "off"
    Option "StereoSyncEnable"          "1"
    # === Misc Options ===
    Option "UseFastTLS"                "0"
    Option "BlockSignalsOnLock"        "on"
    Option "UseInternalAGPGART"        "no"
    Option "ForceGenericCPU"            "no"
    # === FSAA ===
    Option "FSAAScale"                  "1"
    Option "FSAADisableGamma"          "no"
    Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos"        "no"
    Option "FSAAMSPosX0"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosY0"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosX1"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosY1"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosX2"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosY2"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosX3"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosY3"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosX4"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosY4"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosX5"                "0.000000"
    Option "FSAAMSPosY5"                "0.000000"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "screen1"
    Device "device1"
    Monitor "monitor1"
    DefaultColorDepth 24
   
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 8
        Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
    EndSubsection
   
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 15
        Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
    EndSubsection
   
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 16
        Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
    EndSubsection
   
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 24
        Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "layout1"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    Screen "screen1"
EndSection

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