poor display with fedora 8 and Radeon ATI ES1000

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Downs, John <John.Downs at idearc.com> wrote:
>
>
>       Greetings, I have an HP Proliant ML 570 with a Radeon ATI ES1000
> 515EPCI graphic controller. I recently installed fedora 8 on this machine
> and ran into problems right away, the gui interface did display correctly,
> so I did the text version.   I installed the following driver
> "xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-1.fc8.x86.rpm" and still had problems. The problem
> is: the display is almost unreadable and unusable, the text is not clear, so
> the GUI interface is useless.  I suspect it may be my xorg.conf file so I
> have included it.  Thanks for any and all help!
>

What's resolution are aiming for?  Also can you attach your xorg log?

Thanks,

Alex

> -john
>
> # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "single head configuration"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
>         Option      "AIGLX" "on"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         ModelName    "LCD Panel 1024x768"
>         HorizSync    31.5 - 48.0
>         VertRefresh  56.0 - 65.0
>         Option      "dpms"
>         DisplaySize  433 270
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "radeon"
>         VendorName  "ATI"
>         BoardName   "ATI Radeon ES1000"
>
>         # Options recommended on dri.freedesktop.org
>         Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
>         Option "AGPMode" "1"
>         Option "EnablePageFlip" "1"
>         Option "ColorTiling" "1"
>
>         Option      "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
>         Option      "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
>         Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 # Fix the viewable area to 1680x1050, or something
>                 Virtual     1680 1050
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Extensions"
>         Option      "Composite" "Enable"
> EndSection
>
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