Radeon, Video driver

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:31:09 -0500, Jim wrote:

> I have got a ATI Radeon 9200SE RV280 adapter.
> I have ran all the drivers for the ATI cards 

What does that mean? ("ran all the drivers")

You installed F8 successfully, then bootet the first time.
What happened?

> but when it tryies to 
> startx the card goes totally out of sink.

When exactly?

Have you tried  "system-config-display --reconfig" yet?

> I even installed the kmod-fglrx and setup xorg.conf.

This only adds to the confusion. It is more interesting what you get on an
up-to-date Fedora 8 with system-config-display and no added 3rd party
packages that might mess up the installation and configuration.

> I did a lspci -v and comes up as:
> 
> 01:00.0  VGA  compatible controller :  ATI Radeon 9200SE RV280
> 01:00.1 Display controller:  ATI Radeon 9200SE RV280

Don't use -v when you cut off the verbose output.
The ATI Radeon 9200 series is pretty normal and widespread.
xorg-x11-drv-ati is correct for those cards.

> Why would it show it as two different devices ??

Is it dual-head capable?