Re: ati radeon xpress 200m video support on SLES 11?
"Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.suse.oracle.general |
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| Message-ID | <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910202236490.3794@localhost> |
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Ciro Iriarte wrote: > 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 bit of a snag ... i added the repo, selected x11-video-fglrxG01, and got: "nothing provides kernel(debug:arch_x86_kernel_cpu_mtrr)= ... snip ... needed by ati-fglrxG01-kmp-debug-etc etc.x86_64" is there a kernel package i need to install first before trying that? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ suse-sles-e mailing list [email protected] http://listx.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/suse-sles-e