Video display resolutions and aspect ratios...

[comedyaddict]

Hi Everyone!

First off I have to say that I've been really impressed with Sabayon so far. Everything just works from what I've been able to tell, except one thing. The thing is that I cannot set my video resolution higher then 1024*768. I've tried a number of linux distros where I could not even install them since my 256mb Ati x700 pro card just didn't work for the install process.



My questions are as follows:

1) How do I tell what graphics card is meant to be installed in the system? I'm gathering that its not my ATI one...

2) After a little research I found out about the ATI Proprietary Linux drivers. Has anyone install these successfully? Or do I not need them?

Thanks Heaps.. Brian

BTW, I have the current version of the OS if that helps...

[wolfden]

The ati-drivers should already be there

/etc/X11/xorg.conf <-- for all your resolution settings


Wiki
http://www.sabayonlinux.org/wiki/index. ... in_Sabayon

[2ny]

Personally, I am on nVidia and I have to use the boot-options when I install.

I use - [ res=1280x800 refresh=60 opengl=nvidia ]

You could throw in a statement for you keymap if you need that.

This is what I use for my Notebook - pick your own resolution and exchange "nvidia" for "ati".

Note - look up the supported resolutions and only use one of those that you can live with. As an example, I couldn't use 1280x900 because the installation doesn't support that. The effect on my notebook would be that I'd get 1024x768.

Tony. . .

[mousejunkie]

I have an ATI x700 chip with 128 dedicated RAM on my Laptop. On this machine, sabayon is the first distro that booted without any problems - resolution 1680x1050 ... which is also why I'm sticking to it.(tried various distro since the mid 90's and always gave up after a few weeks)

I know this is not an answer to your problem, but I guess it shows that the chip alone is not the problem...or does the "pro" have something to do with it?

[Fitzcarraldo]

My laptop has an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 and even with the latest fglrx drivers as installed with SL 3.26, then SL 3.3 and now 3.4 loop 2b, hardware acceleration is a no-no: no DRI, no XGL (and no AIGLX).

And with SL 3.4 Loop 2b only one resolution (the maximum detected, viz. 1680 x 1050 for my laptop) is available in Control Centre > Peripherals > Display Screen size. It does not matter what I do with xorg.conf, only one screen size is available. So I need to have to have two versions of xorg.conf: one when I'm using my laptop by itself and another when I'm using it with and external monitor. With SL 3.26 and 3.3 I just needed to adjust the screen size from the Control Centre.

Seems ATI is not SL-friendly.