ATI Rage Mobility with Xorg - anyone got this working

[Jim Cornette]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Does anyone have a laptop with ATI Rage Mobility video "card"
> working properly with FC-2, ie with Xorg ?
> 
> I can't get this working at 1024 x 480 x 16bpp,
> as it did with FC-1 (and all previous Redhat distributions).
> 
> I posted a bug report several months ago
> but it seemed to fall into a black hole.
> 

I have the below model and am getting 1024 x 768 as resolution. The 
output is from lspci run as root. This is with FC2 installed.

00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 
(MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1


I set my screen to an LCD type and excerpted is what xorg.conf shows 
about both monitor and video card. The settings weem to work for me.


Section "Monitor"
         Identifier   "Monitor0"
         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
         ModelName    "HP P4829J L1820 18.1-inch LCD Monitor"
         HorizSync    25.0 - 82.0
         VertRefresh  54.0 - 88.0
         Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
         Identifier  "Videocard0"
         Driver      "radeon"
         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
         BoardName   "ATI Radeon Mobility U1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
         Identifier "Screen0"
         Device     "Videocard0"
         Monitor    "Monitor0"
         DefaultDepth     24
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth     16
                 Modes    "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
         EndSubSection
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth     24
                 Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" 
"800x600" "640x480"
         EndSubSection
EndSection


Jim

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