(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

I saw a description of how to use an ATI card with puppy, but it seems old. Will it still work with Puppy 2.17?

If not, is there any way to get ATI's drivers working with Puppy? I've tried with 3 different distros now, and ATI's drivers never have worked for me at all.

Thanks, anyone who can help.

See:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=20463

Thanks.

Well, that didn't really work.

For some reason, I can only get to 1400x1050 on an LCD with a native res of 1680x1250, so am I doing something wrong?

The .pet said it installed fine, so I manually edited the Xorg.conf file and set my res to my LCD's native, but when xwindows tries to start, I see "No Signal" and the moniter gives up and sleeps.

Sorry I really don't know. The main reason for using the fglrx driver is for accelerated 3d graphics (games). The Xorgwizard should have displayed the available resolutions when you first setup puppy. I don't know if the resolution problem is a limitation of Xorg 7.0 or fglrx or if there's some setting yet to be found. You might try running amdcccle. I think I made a menu entry for it or you can just open a terminal and type amdcccle. Then click on Display Manager. There may be some settings there you can try.



P.S. At one time the fglrx driver only supported 16bit color. Don't know if that's still the case. Works for me with 24bit color. Ati is notorious for it's linux drivers. ATI=poop

kirk wrote:Ati is notorious for it's linux drivers. ATI=poop

I'll agree there. I've given up completely now. Sending it back for an
eVGA GeForce 8600GTS. I know that'll be much less of a headache, because my machine, pre-ATI, had a 6200 from XFX.

Got my NVIDIA, and running at a fine 1680x1250 native res. Nice!

Only one problem. I had to use xvesa to get it to this res. Xorg wouldn't do it. Does that mean I can't use the proprietary NVIDIA drivers? Looks good, anyway. Thanks Ezpup dev.