Pretty much sounds like the problems I had until upgrading X. Which version of X is installed? and post your config and log please. On Thu, 2 May 2002 10:08:25 -0700 (PDT) Hesty P <hestyp@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having trouble with X and my Radeon 7500. > I'm trying to install Mandrake 8.2 and initially > when I startx, my monitor will go blank. After > fumbling around with different options, I finally > managed to get X started with Radeon driver, yay.. > but it only works sometimes. Most of the times when > I startx my monitor will go blank again. My monitor > is IBM P201 with specs: > Max pixel rate 230 MHz, vertical refresh rate 50-160Hz > horizontal scan rate 30-107KHz. > > Right now vesa driver works like a charm for me, but > I'd like to have radeon driver works with dri :) > > I'm trying to determine whether it's radeon driver > or monitor problem. With both radeon and vesa driver, > the XFree86.0.log doesn't reveal any error. Anyone > care to share their opinion?