fahd Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Hi folks! Any help is acceptable. I changed my ati x300 video card to ati x1650, but unfortunately neighter mandy 2007, nor mandy spring rc3 could recognise the device correctly. I was forced to select xorgt:vesa driver settings in order to use xserver(GUI). I also downloaded the ati driver from ATI website, but unfortunately I got the same results. Of course i use windows as a reference point which may come in handy in such cases. It works very well (of course with appropriate windows drivers). I am frustrated due this ati x1650 driver lack. Thanks a lot in advance. Fahd [moved to hardware from everything linux by tyme] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scythe Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 Just to make sure - you did install the ATI drivers correctly? I hate to sound like Dell tech support (Sir, could you please make sure that your power cord is in fact plugged into the wall socket? Common mistake you know...) I found this thread where another person was having trouble with his x1650, so maybe it'll help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sant Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 I have similar problem with my ati x1650 (agp-version) - though installation (Mandriva 2007.1 pp) goes smoothly just till the moment when i ihave to adjust the video settings. When i choose the "ati x1300 - x1800", enable the proprietary driver and test the settings - my screen goes blank and stays black for some time, then it returns to video-options window. But when i choose "ati x1300 - x1800" with no proprietary drivers (fbdev) and with no hardware-acceleration support, the testing goes fine and i see the colorful screen with a question "Is this the corect settings?" And after the installation, when i try to watch movie with Mplayer on fullscreen - sound goes normally, BUT video is so slowly, that it starts to fall behind after few seconds !! I have to admit that on Mandriva 2007 i also couldn't make my x1650 working fullpower, though i could watch movies normaly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 What happens if you enable the proprietary driver without testing? Black screen when starting X? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sant Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 What happens if you enable the proprietary driver without testing? Black screen when starting X? That's right - black screen. And i can't even kill X, though i can switch to another virtual console. I've tried to install mandy 2007.1 with fbdev-driver and switch to propreitary driver afterwards. But when it came to testing the settings - i've got black sceen AND system stoped responding to the keyboard commands - though i could loged in to the system from another computer through ssh, after watching at the list of the processes, i've found a process with a backward timecount of the test screen, that stoped at the count of 10 or 9 and this process i couldn't stop by any means. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigulici Posted October 11, 2007 Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 i have a x1650 +monitor 20" wide, same problem with mandz 2007 or but 2007.1 pp, but work great with 2008 pp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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