Comments on: Fedora Core 6 & ATi Radeon x1600 AGP finally working

By: Abu Hurayrah

Abu Hurayrah — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:27:42 +0000

I’m actually hung up on getting the display drivers to work with X. Yeah, kinda the same problem I had before, and I just haven’t had time to debug it sufficiently. When I get a chance, I’ll try to resolve it, in shaa Allaah, and continue reporting at that point.

By: TheCheerer

TheCheerer — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:17:26 +0000

Gentoo’s long compile times are a feature! That’s when you grab some sleep.

By: HidayahTech » Blog Archive » Installing Gentoo…again

HidayahTech » Blog Archive » Installing Gentoo…again — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:02:13 +0000

[...] Installing Gentoo…again In light of, literally, recent comments, I’ve decided to take a shot at installing Gentoo once again (I can already imagine one person cheering…). One thing that you have to admit is that Gentoo has outstanding documentation. Additionally, the idea of compiling nearly everything from souce, which may seem tedious to some, just seems natural to me - after all, practically all software starts out as source code at some point. And, since I usually have to step away from my computer for hours at a time, long recompile times for new software doesn’t really bother me. The best part is that Portage, Gentoo’s software management repository, seems to be amongst the most up-to-date of all of ‘em, so this means I can almost always be running the most recent, stable version of applications, which is how I generally like it. [...]

By: Abu Hurayrah

Abu Hurayrah — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:22:33 +0000

Yeah, I probably should try Gentoo myself again. I was usin’ it earlier, but I didn’t exert too much of an effort. Now that I have a spare PC, I guess it’s not a bad idea to give Gentoo another shot…

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:45:28 +0000

I just ran into the exact same problem with X1600 video card. Installing Gentoo now.

By: Vitaly

Vitaly — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:59:31 +0000

Which Linux Distro were you able to use

By: Abu Hurayrah

Abu Hurayrah — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 01:10:33 +0000

I’m glad you were able to get it working, though I’m dismayed that you had to opt for another OS rather than Fedora. Hopefully the hardware support situation of Linux and manufacturers’ poor driver support (and even poorer cooperation with kernel developers!) is rectified soon.

By: Adam Boschma

Adam Boschma — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:07:01 +0000

Still not working, though I did try a different Linux OS and got that working fairly well… Thanks for your help!

By: Abu Hurayrah

Abu Hurayrah — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:51:52 +0000

I currently run through my VGA connector, so at first I thought that might be the case, but you’ve demonstrated that it is not.

One issue I was experiencing with my video card was a lack of sufficient power. I was experiencing lockups in Windows after an extended period of time, and I would experience lockups in Fedora (both FC5 & FC6) after a very short time. If you think this is a possibility, then I would recommend you reconfigure your power connections to ensure your video card has at least one dedicated connector (i.e., not shared with any other peripherals) and/or disconnecting some non-essential devices for testing purposes (e.g., CD/DVD-ROM drives, extra disks, etc.). This was an elusive problem for me that resulted in a lot of headaches….

By: Adam Boschma

Adam Boschma — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:37:05 +0000

VGA gave basically no difference. I’m able to select which OS to boot, run through the boot to Linux and as soon as its done booting monitor detects no signal from card…

By: Adam Boschma

Adam Boschma — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:24:56 +0000

No video as soon as it runs through boot, the card works. It’s what I’m using atm in my XP boot. I have the PC set up for dual boot. Monitor just takes a nap as soon as it’s done running boot to FC6. I’m checking if FC6 just didnt like the fact I had it plugged in through DVI rather than the VGA on the card right now…

By: Abu Hurayrah

Abu Hurayrah — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:10:03 +0000

Well, for starters, you might want to take a look at your xorg.conf file (located under /etc/X11/xorg.conf). I’ll post mine at the end here. When you say, “absolutely no video”, what do you mean? Do you get a command prompt, a completely blank screen, does your monitor report no signal, etc. Also, have you verified that your video card is, indeed, in working condition? And is this a fresh installation of FC6, and upgrade, did it work before, and now it doesn’t, did you just install drivers - the more information, the better.

Here’s my xorg.conf:
==========================================

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Default Layout”
Screen 0 “aticonfig-Screen[0]” 0 0
InputDevice “Keyboard0″ “CoreKeyboard”
EndSection

Section “Files”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “glx”
Load “dri”
EndSection

Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “Disable”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Keyboard0″
Driver “kbd”
Option “XkbModel” “pc105″
Option “XkbLayout” “us”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “aticonfig-Monitor[0]”
Option “VendorName” “ATI Proprietary Driver”
Option “ModelName” “Generic Autodetecting Monitor”
Option “DPMS” “true”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “aticonfig-Device[0]”
Driver “fglrx”
Option “VideoOverlay” “on”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “aticonfig-Screen[0]”
Device “aticonfig-Device[0]”
Monitor “aticonfig-Monitor[0]”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Mode 0666
EndSection
==========================================

By: Adam Boschma

Adam Boschma — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:29:08 +0000

I’m using Fedora Core 6 as well and an ATI Radeon x1600 agp… Though the problem I am having is I am getting absolutely no video after booting into FC6. Any thoughts?

(sorry for posting on the wrong section first, not used to this site ;))