ATI Radeon X1600 Mobility on Asus A6J - No video drivers ??

mistermax · n00b Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 59

Hi all,

in few days I will receive my first laptop, an Asus A6J T2300. Looking around I saw that there are no video drivers available from ATI neither from X.org! I have no idea how to use its ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 128MB VRAM GPU with Linux in general and with Gentoo in particulary. How it's possible that ATI is so insensitive to the Linux community ??
Nvidia, on the other side, is delivering time-by-time new drivers both for Windows and Linux! What your opinion about?
Are there some hopes to use Gentoo on this LapTop in next days?
I'm truly discouraged and disappointed by this history

MrMax

pjedryczek · n00b Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 28

You can use vesa driver for now. I think that ATI drivers will be available soon.
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mistermax · n00b Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 59

Hi pjedryczek,

tnx for the answer.

Interesting... I never used other than dedicated drivers (nvidia for nvidia cards, mga for matrox and so on...), so
I have no idea about the configuration work necessary to make a VESA driver working properly.
I'm hoping too that ATI will deliver new drivers soon, but the experience says that it
takes long time! You know, up to now there is a new Catalyst Mobility 6.2 for Windows XP which contains the last Radeon® display driver 8.221 but an 'old' ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Drivers for XFREE86 / X. Org Version 8.22.5 for linux,
as shown here:
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/catalyst_mobility_62.html
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.22.5.html

I really have no experience working with ATI and Mobility GPU, but I will try the VESA driver anyway.

MrMax

pjedryczek · n00b Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 28

mistermax · n00b Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 59

I see.
I'll try as soon as possible.

MrMax

jparal · n00b Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 20

Did it work?
I'm going to buy notebook with x1600 and I'm just worry I'll not be able to run X.

mistermax · n00b Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 59

Hi gyus,

sorry to say that the VESA driver seems to be not able to handle resolution as 1200x800 :cry:

The display is working fine under Windows XP at 1200x800 at 32bit color depth, but in X the best results I got is working at 1024x768 using the VESA driver without acceleration...
Hope ATI will release new drivers soon, as working at lower resolution than the standard the results are poor...

MrMax

rmh3093 · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:24 pm Post subject:

yeah i have an Acer with the X1600 and i want my 1680x1050 resolution
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mistermax · n00b Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 59

Hi folks,

any news here?
So ATI X1600 board is like a garbage with Gentoo/Linux ?
That's really incredible

MrMax

soulfire · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 70 Location: Italy

yeah, we have to wait for the next release of ati drivers...

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mistermax · n00b Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 59

Hi guys,

enjoy!!
ATI delivered ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version 8.24.8 for X1600/X1800 Mobility Radeon !!

Have a look:

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.24.8.html#180224

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=27