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Genres modeline generator and switchres dynamic modeline switcher
bitbytebit:
Version .10 is available and has big improvements, xrandr now can be used and dynamically add modelines to X possibly no longer requiring modified xserver/radeon drivers. Also now vertical refresh rates can be more exact using xrandr, and more likely vertical sync will be correct unless it just can't calculate the original refresh rate with your monitors specs.
Quinny:
Can you please help me with the set up of this?
I used to have a NVIDIA card in my machine but recently put in an arcadeVGA PCIe card and I am having a few difficulties. It took me a few hours to work out why I could not start X and now I have it started in a low res mode using fglrx, but I cannot start any open GL graphics. It gives me a "Segmentation fault".
Can you please tell me what drivers you use? Or can I use genres on its own to set this up correctly?
It should be noted that I am trying to get this card to work on a computer monitor and not a 15KHz screen.
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: Quinny on October 19, 2010, 09:01:25 am ---Can you please help me with the set up of this?
I used to have a NVIDIA card in my machine but recently put in an arcadeVGA PCIe card and I am having a few difficulties. It took me a few hours to work out why I could not start X and now I have it started in a low res mode using fglrx, but I cannot start any open GL graphics. It gives me a "Segmentation fault".
Can you please tell me what drivers you use? Or can I use genres on its own to set this up correctly?
It should be noted that I am trying to get this card to work on a computer monitor and not a 15KHz screen.
--- End quote ---
Yeah my ArcadeVGA PCIe card makes fglrx barf out like that too using any openGL stuff. I use the ati drivers, using radeon as the actual name of the driver in xorg.conf. You should uninstall the fglx stuff completely and then install only the ati xf86 driver and use that. In the genres zip, you can find a good example of the xorg.conf file to use, just remove all the modelines. My modified version of the ati driver probably is fine for you, but don't use the xserver because you need the default modes for a computer monitor. You might be able to setup some modelines with non-standard resolutions running genres in -vga or -multi mode, could give it a shot at least.
Thanks,
Chris
Quinny:
Thanks. It took me a while to get all the extra bits I needed to make the driver.
Now X is broken again and locks up.
I only added the Devices section of your xorg.conf-top file to my xorg.conf file. I changed the BusID to 4:0:0 because that's what mine is using.
When I go into recovery mode I can see "No devices detected" in the Xorg.0.log file.
Changing back to the old almost empty xorg.conf file does not help. I can't get a GUI with using fglrx. Any ideas?
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: Quinny on October 19, 2010, 12:18:06 pm ---Thanks. It took me a while to get all the extra bits I needed to make the driver.
Now X is broken again and locks up.
I only added the Devices section of your xorg.conf-top file to my xorg.conf file. I changed the BusID to 4:0:0 because that's what mine is using.
When I go into recovery mode I can see "No devices detected" in the Xorg.0.log file.
Changing back to the old almost empty xorg.conf file does not help. I can't get a GUI with using fglrx. Any ideas?
--- End quote ---
Sounds like your X setup is broken somewhat, which fglrx can do and you really have to fully uninstall it and reinstall all opengl etc extras afterwards (it moves the originals out of the way). There's a command with script that installs fglrx that can uninstall it too, try that. Then possibly reinstall all your distributions X packages and the ati driver from there for the radeon, if you use my altered one then make sure you compile with --prefix=/usr or where your distribution puts the X distribution.
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