7500 & X-WINDOWS & blank-screen & HELP

Pontifice · Jul 5, 2002, 10:07 PM

Everytime i try to "startx" my monitor enters in suspend-mode.....
so everytime i need to run linux i have to change my videocard

The radeon is 7500 powercolor 64Mb
it has 3 output VGA/DVI/TV i use VGA

Thank you

Yeti · Jul 5, 2002, 10:37 PM

Yeah, i assume there is nothing wrong with your Xwindows system.

Using the new ATI drivers? they are *experimental* try running the card under VGA or Vesa compatibility mode.

You may have to adjust the cards dot clock to be within the parameters for your monitor. This is in XF86Config... heres a page on that...

XF86Config info... may be useful

Hope that helps.

Also if your card has several outputs, the glitch may be in that it is sending the output signal to the wrong one... although this would be very strange. I would hook each one up and test to see whether you get an image.

Good luck

Pontifice · Jul 6, 2002, 04:11 AM

Maybe could be the output problem but i don't have a DVI to VGA converter so ....
The monitor is well configured, xfree runs without problems in a voodoo 3 3000
i think is a problem with the drivers because once i start "startx" i have to reset
to get something on the screen ( Ctrl+Alt+Backspace doesn't work )
I will continue trying .... and thank you

Yeti · Jul 6, 2002, 05:13 AM

C-A-Backspace doesn't work?...hmmm... well is it just the Graphical console that fails? What about the text based ones? (A-F1-F6)

But i'm sure you've tried that already...

Good luck... and i'm sorry but i don't know enough about the linux ATI drivers... ( Voodoo3 here myself)

Pontifice · Jul 7, 2002, 04:59 AM

I search over internet for a solution and find many people with similar problems,
but i didn't find a solution which works for me ..... ( sigh ), i will have to wait until
xfree 4.3.0

thank you again

Yeti · Jul 7, 2002, 11:47 AM

Good luck, and don't get discouraged.

Pontifice · Jul 9, 2002, 07:29 AM

Finally i got it ....... but it is not a clearly solution,after editing XF86config in many ways, using a Riva128 (PCI) at the same time.

The solution is to click a ok ( or cancel ?¿?) button in a window that couldn't be seen ( because the blank screen ) once clicked the screen comes to life and it is possible to exit xfree and enter again without problems .... i want to know if it will continue working after a reboot

Yeti · Jul 9, 2002, 09:27 AM

You meen the X86 test screen? You know, you don't have to go through that... you can just set the properties manually. Lol, i thought you couldn't load it up period... but if its just the configuration tool then you should be ok? right? LOL

note the *should* there... i'll be waiting to hear from ya again, (or if i don't hear, i'll assume everythin went ok

)

Pontifice · Jul 9, 2002, 04:33 PM

No it isn,t the test screen ( if i run with another videocard nothing appears ) but i don't know what it is ? .... and of course after rebooting i have to click an invisible button again, but now i know what i have to do, i am searching a keys secuence to "click" the button ( clicking with mouse is almos impossible )

I am happy again ......

Thank you ..