Re: ati radeon xpress 200m video support on SLES 11?

Ciro Iriarte <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.oracle.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2009/10/20 Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>:
>
>  hi, i'm relatively new to SLES 11 but long-time linux user.  i
> installed SLES 11 on a gateway mx7120 laptop, everything works fine
> except this laptop has the above video card -- ati radeon xpress 200m,
> and i have no idea how to get that card to run at the full display res
> of 1280x800.
>
>  so far, all i can do is boot using failsafe, whereupon i get the
> lower res of 1024x768.  if i boot normally, i end up with a black
> screen, although i can still ssh in as the laptop is still running.
>
>  any hints?  if there's a simple fix, i'm all ears.  otherwise, i
> *can* supply more info like Xorg.0.log, etc.  thanks.
>
> rday
> --
>

Install ATI driver, probably SLES11 is already supported for RPM generation.

Ref: http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/ati-installer-HOWTO.html#manual

Regards,

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