ATI drivers for Laptop

[Listman]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 07:11, Martijn Bronkhorst wrote:
> Hello,
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> 
> I’m not sure if i am saying this right, but i’m trying to configure a
> ATI 128 mobility video card while using fedora core 2. The drivers for
> linux that ati offers did not do the trick.
> 
>  
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> I really need to get this working, because I need an external monitor
> now first before I ever see the display right. And on a laptop, this
> isn’t very nice.
> 
>  
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> If you can help me out, please do.
> 
>  
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> Thanx in Advance
> 
> Martijn Bronkhorst
> 
Martin, 
I had no problem other than default screen size.

lspci | grep ATI
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf
[Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 01)

lsmod | grep rad
radeon                113669  2


This module comes with the kernel. 

snippet from xorg.conf
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "radeon"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "ATI Radeon Mobility M9"
EndSection

Ted