Trgy Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Hello everyone I just installed mandriva on my Toshiba satellite A210. When I try to change screen resolution in configure desktop option i just get 1024x768. When I go to control center and list my hardware it says Identification Vendor: ‎ATI Technologies Inc Description: ‎RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] Media class: ‎VGA compatible controller Connection Bus: ‎PCI PCI domain: ‎0 Bus PCI #: ‎1 PCI device #: ‎5 PCI function #: ‎0 Vendor ID: ‎0x1002 Device ID: ‎0x791f Sub vendor ID: ‎0x1179 Sub device ID: ‎0xff00 Misc Module: ‎Card:ATI Radeon X1300 - X1950 The graphic card model is correct so I assume the driver is also good. When I goo to graphical server setup I can choose whenever resolution I want but still nothing happens :(. I tried to install the original driver I downloaded from ATI site, but when I tray that it pop up with an error says "media:blah, blah, is a binary, saving it will result corrupt file THIS IS MY FIRST TIME USING LINUX SO CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME BECAUSE IM NOT GETTING BACK ON MICROSOFT NO MATTER WHAT. THANX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{BBI}Nexus{BBI} Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 (edited) Help us to help you by posting error messages in full "media:blah, blah, is a binary, saving it will result corrupt fileis of 0 help. FYI, typing in full caps is considered as shouting. Edited February 25, 2008 by {BBI}Nexus{BBI} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 I just installed mandriva on my Toshiba satellite A210. When I try to change screen resolution in configure desktop option i just get 1024x768. When I go to control center and list my hardware it says IdentificationVendor: ‎ATI Technologies Inc Welcome to the board! What resolution do you want? What version of Mandriva are you using? Please open a terminal and post the output of cat /etc/release What video driver are you now using? Please post the output of cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf |grep -i driver The easiest (and preferred) method to install the proper driver, or any software, is to set up your software sources (repositories) with Easy-Urpmi. I suggest that you start with reading this post on Software installation. Then set up easyurpmi as per the instructions in that thread, so you can install the packages you need. Here's a link to Easy-Urpmi: mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi After you have set up your repositories, then you can use your package manager or urpmi to install the proper driver. Then in a terminal run XFdrake to set up your video card with the proper driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trgy Posted February 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 THNX I ll read and try to do this. I m using Mandriva Linux One 2008, and would like res 1024*800 or higher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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