Re: Radeon ATI Mobility 7500

Michel Dänzer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.expert
Organization Debian, XFree86
Message-ID <1039533344.1752.66.camel@thor>
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 23:35, Eric Plaster wrote: 
> Ok, I got a Dell Latitude C640 with a Radeon ATI Mobility 7500 and 
> loaded it with RH8.0.  I upgraded the kernel to rawhide kernel 
> kernel-2.4.19-0.pp.20.  I upgraded my XFree86 to Mike Harris' 
> development release of 4.2.99.2-0.20021126.10.
> 
> When I was using the RH8 XFree86 version of 4.2 I could get 800x600 on 
> my external monitor (vga port off the back of the laptop).  Now, I can 
> only do 640x480.  My monitor is a Dell P991 and can do 1600x1200.  It is 
> having problems reading in my hsync/vrefresh range, as you can see from 
> this part of the log:
> 
> (WW) RADEON(0): Monitor0: Using default hsync range of 28.00-33.00kHz
> (WW) RADEON(0): Monitor0: using default vrefresh range of 43.00-72.00Hz

As DDC doesn't seem to work with your external monitor, you may need to
provide the refresh ranges it supports with Options "CloneHSync" and
"CloneVRefresh".


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XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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