Can't get X to work with ATI

Giuseppe Giannuzzi beppeg at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 13:51:03 UTC 2006


Espen Stefansen wrote:

> Hi
>
> I recently bought a new dell computer with a ATI x600 graphics-card. I 
> tried installing FC4 on it, but a graphical installation is not 
> possible. The monitor just goes black and the keyboard doesnt work. A 
> text install on the other hand works 
> fine. But booting into X, makes the screen go black again.
>
> Fedora finds both the ati card and my monitor correctly. But no matter 
> what i try, everything still goes black. In 
> my xorg-log it says something about "screen not found", but i dont understand why, since this should be correct. 
>
>
> I've tried the xorg-driver and ati's own driver, but with no luck. The 
> hints at fedorafaq.org <http://fedorafaq.org> doesn't help either.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why X won't work?
>
> Regards
> Espen

Can you pls list your hardware (motherboard, chipset, etc)

Best,
Beppe




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