Re: ML-PPC 8.2: install-radeon broken

[Generation NeXT]

Hi all, 

Sorry, to get off track.  I'm just an eager newbie
trying to get it to work.  Actually, I think I made a
mistake with the cube.  My last succesful system was a
Powerbok G4 Titanium (500MHz) w/ the ATI Rage.  I had
so many problems with it, that Apple upgraded it to
the Powerbook G4 Titanium (667MHz) w/ the ATI Radeon
Mobility.  Before, I don't believe I got either the
cube, nor the newer Powerbook to work.  But reading
through the archives, the Titanium updates look
encouraging.

Back to the Cube + Radeon, I was wondering if I can do
anything here.  I am only guessing, but I think the
video resolution is being set to 1152x768, which is
incompatible with the Apple Studio Display 15 (15"
LCD, 1024x786, 72dpi).  I remember seeing others with
different video card run into similar problems, but I
am unsure how they steered around this.

I have two ideas from this vantive: 

  (1) Try multi-sync monitor with cube that supports
1152x768.
  (2) See if I can change the default video
resolution.

Number 2 would be ideal for the rare celestial
occurance that someone else might have a similar
config.

Before I mention that I found this file:
/Mandrake/mdkinst/etc/X11/XConf-radeon

One video mode was specified as 1152x7668.  Is this
the file that is used?  Is there anyway I can change
this to get it to work.  I can mount the iso image,
edit the files, and then burn a modified ISO image.  

Though, I am totally unfamilar with edit these
configuration files.  It looks logical, but I am
worried, that these settings refer to something else. 
I coudn't find anyother configurations for other video
cards.  Are these compressed somewhere?

 - Joaquin Menchaca

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