On 09.02.2014 00:42, Max wrote: > Is there some sort of configuration that needs to be done with the > Radeon Driver to get resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024 ? My system > looks like crap at that resolution but its seems to be the best I can get. > > The above is the only question that I have, the below rounds out why I > am asking and the other options I had considered or explored. > > The card I am using is a Radeon 6570 which I know is capable of better > resolution than what I am getting. > > I am not sure what happened as I have been out of touch with this for > sometime. I have been using an Nvidia card in the last few years and > that did the trick. > > When it decided to fail I decided to go back to an ATI card, since they > have an open source driver. > > Aticonfig doesn't appear to work for the radeon driver. I saw the > radeontool but that didn't appear to help either but frankly I am not > sure how to use it. There is no manual page for it apparently and I am > not sure which registers to set nor what to set them too. > > I tried the AMD/ATI proprietary driver but it fails to build the kernel > module then asks for a reboot. Reboot and presto all there is, is an > error message. I had to uninstall it to get back to runlevel 5. In any > case I also gather that kmod-radeon or catalyst is no longer available. > Its a shame but what can you do. > > So I am back to my original question: Is there some sort of > configuration that needs to be done with the Radeon Driver to get > resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024 ? > > Thanks, > > Max > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general "xrandr", "PreferredMode", etc. poma -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
