ati radeon 9200 pro

i've seen all sorts of posts about this, one helped me for a while before i made some changes and screwed it up. i am trying to make a media pc with a tv for a monitor so i can play super nintendo and watch avi's, etc. i bought a radeon 9200pro, installed all sorts of drivers for it, using dpkg reconfigure, synaptic, and the ati website. i'm sure now i have a mishmash of stuff that is breaking the deal, but on my tv i see a black and white downard scrolling picture that makes me feel queasy.

can someone tell me what i need to do to go from mess of drivers and stuff to working tv output? which driver, from where? what to type to install and enable it? how to make the output go to the tv, and not bother with a monitor?

i'm going crazy, i've been researching, typing, and banging my head on the wall for a week now.

thanks, i really appreciate your help

tim

Boot from the live cd, making sure to choose the resolution you want at the blue and white screen. When you log in to the live cd system, go to system configuration > administration > mepis utilities. Choose the reinstall xorg.conf option, which will restore your display to the Mepis installation defaults. Reboot without the live cd and log in. Now go to system configuration > administration > mepis utilities. Choose display and mouse. Click on the ATI tab and check the box then click apply to install the official driver.

Simplest way to do it. :)

If you want to go the harder route, though, you can follow the instructions from this link:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

It may take a couple of tries to get it right, but rest assured that you can always boot into the live cd and restore Mepis default settings to start over with a clean slate. :)

[Cliff76]

Ongoing issue!

I have the same video card and the same problem! My ATI9200 will not work right under Mepis-6.0. I get the basic functionality but I want to enable 3D so that I can toy with the new desktop eye-candy like Beryl and XGL. If anyone knows anything please reply to this topic or on my blog: http://codeforfun.wordpress.com/2007...9200-on-linux/

[richb]

I have an ATI 9100, and am using 6.5 RC1. Beryl and 3D work fine out of the box. I could not get it to work under 6.0.

[Saist]

It won't work

http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/sh...91&postcount=2

the Radeon 9000 is a Radeon 8500 graphics card. It is only supported by the Radeon X.org Driver.

ATi removed support for the Radeon 8500 in driver version 8.29 last year. Currently the default driver for Mepis is 8.31

It has been requested to Warren that the 8.28 driver be added to the Mepis Repositories for Radeon 8500 users.

http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/sh...99&postcount=1

Quick word of advice for any users who have R200 products from ATi: Those are any graphics cards in the Radeon 8500, Radeon 9000, Radeon 9100, Radeon 9200, and Radeon 9100 IGP series.

As is well known, ATi dropped R200 support in the 8.29.6 Linux Drivers. However, support for these products is also broken in the 8.25.18 series of drivers.

This might be an issue as the current Ubuntu repository drivers are... yes. the 8.25.18 series. For now in order to get working R200 support, you'll either need to force the older "breezy badger" driver, grab the driver and install from ATi.com, or move up to Edgy Eft which lists the 2.28.8 driver set.

http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/sh...71&postcount=2



okay, the most recent versions of ATi's fglrx package have had issues with Radeon 8500 cards (yes, your 9000 is a Radeon 8500).

If you use Synaptic, you can force driver version 6.8 which will still support the 8500 series.

http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.p...upported_cards

ATi : Support through Driver version 8.28

These ATi Fglrx supported cards will likely never have AIGLX support added Beryl is not supported on the Fglrx Driver

• Radeon 8500
• Radeon 9000
• Radeon 9100
• Radeon 9200
• Radeon 9250

• Radeon 9000 IGP
• Radeon 9100 IGP
• Radeon 9100 IGP Pro

ATi : Radeon X.org Driver : Supported

• Radeon 8500-9250 series

TV out is not working under X.org Driver on Mepis 6.5 Beta 6 and Beta 7 Tested on Radeon 8500 AIW

VixenK : Mepis Specific guides are here:

http://www.mepisguides.com/Mepis-6/f...on-part-1.html

http://www.mepisguides.com/Mepis-6/f...lrx/fgrlx.html

http://www.mepisguides.com/Mepis-6/f...on/radeon.html

[richb]

I forgot to say I am using the radeon driver with the ATI 9100, Mepis 6.5 and Beryl.

[lucky9]

I have an ATi 8500 LE/128MB up and running Beryl with the Radeon driver. Don't know what I don't have or am missing. But everything seems to run fairly well.
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