I don't know a whole lot about radeon drivers, but here goes...
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 08:34, Gary Cote wrote:
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>
> So ... questions:
>
> . Do I need to do anything in particular to force
> my video card into digital mode? For instance,
> does it matter whether I plug both VGA and DVI
> cables into the card?
This depends on the video card. If the driver doesn't specify, ie.
before X loads, you'll most likely get an image on both outputs, if you
have a monitor on both. This is what happens with my nvidia. To make
it as easy as possible for X, just plug in DVI XOR VGA. Once the
driver/X loads, its up to it to decide what to do.
> . Are the xf86 server and radeon drivers that ship
> with redhat 8.0 recent enough to support these
> monitors? I'm running a recent 2.4 kernel, so
> presumably the driver is pretty up-to-date.
X doesn't need to know about a specific monitor. Even if its not in X's
list of monitors, you can use any monitor so long as you know the specs
(vert/horiz frequency, etc) - just edit XF86Config by hand. As far as
the radeon drivers go, what 2.4 kernel are you running? I don't know
how significant the ati changes are between say, 2.4.20 and 2.4.22. You
might also try ATI's drivers.
> . Anybody know a better forum to answer these sorts
> of questions? What's the most likely component to
> need tweaking here? The monitor itself? The video
> driver? The X server?
Given that there have been two major releases of RedHat since psyche,
this list is a little quiet of late. You could always try fedora
(ducking for cover :) It seems to have quite an advanced XFree86.
> Thanks in advance.
Hope I was of some assistance :)
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