Re: Radeon (kernel 2.6.7) doesn't show the correct resolution

"Jean Delvare" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.fbdev.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Which is the best framebuffer supported graphics card without a 
> cooler, has a DVI, is reasonably priced (below 100$) and also usable 
> with DirectFB?

I am the happy owner of an (ATI Radeon 9200-based) HIS Excalibur 9200 ViVo
[1], which I chose for these very reasons (fanless, DVI, low price). Now works
fine with both 2.4 [2] and 2.6 kernels as far as I am concerned, but I'm not
much into performance tweaks or fancy stuff. All I really care is the high
number of rows and columns. I may run tests in case you want to make sure that
the card qualifies as "best framebuffer supported graphics", you just have to ask.

However, I doubt that support for your current Radeon 7500 card cannot be
brought back, especially if it works OK with 2.4 kernels. Changing hardware to
workaround software issues doesn't sound like a good policy ;)

[1] http://www.hisdigital.com/html/9200vivo.htm
[2] I need a patch to be able to force 1280x1024 at boot, but I guess it's
related to my flat panel display returning incorrect information, not to the
graphics adapter itself.

-- 
Jean "Khali" Delvare
http://khali.linux-fr.org/



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