Experiences wit Ati Radeon 9200SE and Linux

  • Sep03: replace CRT by a TFT Belinea monitor (17" 1280x1024) with analog and digital (DVI-D) input, use with analog grafic card without problems
  • Nov03: replace old PC by a new PC with Ati Radeon 9200SE grafic card (chipset is R250SE), output is analog, TV and digital (DVI-I), no linux driver on CD but other Radeon linux driver seems to work
  • Nov03: installing linux (testing SuSE-8.2, RedHat-7.3 and Knoppix-3.3), booting with digital cable puts grafic card to the 1024x768 digital mode (thats not what I expected), starting X switches to the analog mode (1280x1024 or less) and only after booting it switches back to digital mode, surprisingly booting with another (non Belinea) monitor was succesfull (1240x1024 digital, /var/log/XFree86.log-a)
  • Dec03: download linux-driver from www.ati.com, tried it without success in single screen or clone mode (see /var/log/XFree86.log), starting X I get always the analog mode (digital output off), trying (startx -- :1 with "IgnoreEDID=on") no success but freezed if pressing Ctrl+Alt+F7, Whats wrong ATi?