fglrx no DVI support?

fanformusik · Jun 21, 2006, 02:53 AM

I am using SuSE Linux 10.1 (64bit) on a Shuttle ST20G5 computer that has ATI Radeon Xpress200 integrated graphics. My 1280x1024 TFT monitor is connected to the DVI output. Since SuSE's opensource "radeon" driver exhibits stability problems ("white screen" system crashes every few hours, for no apparent reason), I decided to try ATI's fglrx driver (8.24.8 / 64bit).

After installing the required packages, I ran the ATI installer and selected "automatic install", which completed fine with no errors or warnings. Then I changed into text mode (init 3), ran aticonfig --initial to create xorg.conf, rebooted my system and found me back with my monitor always going black after login.

It took me quite a while to find out that the reason for this was no signal present at the DVI monitor output; only the analog VGA output was working (however at far too high refresh rates, but I could fix this by manually editing xorg.conf). Also, the "ATI Control" program doesn't work correctly (starts but doesn't build up a GUI, then exits), so I can only manually edit xorg.conf to change settings.

Can I activate the DVI output? How?

*mtippett* · Jun 22, 2006, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by fanformusik

I am using SuSE Linux 10.1 (64bit) on a Shuttle ST20G5 computer that has ATI Radeon Xpress200 integrated graphics. My 1280x1024 TFT monitor is connected to the DVI output. Since SuSE's opensource "radeon" driver exhibits stability problems ("white screen" system crashes every few hours, for no apparent reason), I decided to try ATI's fglrx driver (8.24.8 / 64bit).

After installing the required packages, I ran the ATI installer and selected "automatic install", which completed fine with no errors or warnings. Then I changed into text mode (init 3), ran aticonfig --initial to create xorg.conf, rebooted my system and found me back with my monitor always going black after login.

It took me quite a while to find out that the reason for this was no signal present at the DVI monitor output; only the analog VGA output was working (however at far too high refresh rates, but I could fix this by manually editing xorg.conf). Also, the "ATI Control" program doesn't work correctly (starts but doesn't build up a GUI, then exits), so I can only manually edit xorg.conf to change settings.

Can I activate the DVI output? How?

DVI support for XPress200 regressed for this release. This is fixed in the 8.27 release stream (next month).

Regards,

Matthew