[ltp] R51 and ATI Radeon Mobility question

[Jim Peden]

I just brought a R51 Thinkpad with the ATI Radeon Mobility. Very nice machine.
Redhat 9 installed with no problems ..... sort of. Redhat found and install
Radeon Mobility 7500 driver for the video card. X starts and runs. Problem is
it will ONLY do a resolution of 1024x768. For some reason when I run
redhat-config-xfree86 with the --reconfig option. It will not save the the
XF86Config with a resolution of anything but 800x600. The GUI will let me set
it , but the file does not get written that way. Once I run startx I can go
back run redhat-config-xfree86 again and set the resolution to anything I like
and it save correctly. But it still will not run a resolution better then
1024x768?? What can I do to get a better screen resolution??

Here is short segment of my XFree86.0.log

(II) Module i2c: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.2.0
        ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) RADEON(0): I2C bus "DDC" initialized.
(II) RADEON(0): PLL parameters: rf=2700 rd=12 min=12000 max=35000; xclk=18300
(==) RADEON(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) RADEON(0): Validating modes on Primary head (DDCType: 2) ---------
(II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed.
(II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed.
(II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed.
(II) RADEON(0): Total number of valid DDC mode(s) found: 0
(WW) RADEON(0): Mode 1400x1050 is out of range.
(WW) RADEON(0): Valid modes must be between 320x200-1024x768
(II) RADEON(0): No valid mode specified, force to native mdoe
(II) RADEON(0): Total number of valid FP mode(s) found: 1
(--) RADEON(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024)
(**) RADEON(0): *Mode "1024x768": 65.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 48.4 kHz,
60.0 Hz
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1024x768"   65.00  1024 1040 1176 1344  768 770 776 806
(**) RADEON(0): Display dimensions: (13, 10) mm
(**) RADEON(0): DPI set to (2000, 1950)


I tried the fglrx rpm for FireGL from ATI. It installs fine, but insmod will
not load the fglrx module. Says "No Device Found".  Here is the error message:
==============================================================================
#insmod fglrx 
Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-30.9custom/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o
Warning: loading
/lib/modules/2.4.20-30.9custom/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o will taint the
kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg,
GERMANY
  See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted
modules
/lib/modules/2.4.20-30.9custom/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.o: init_module:
No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
      You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
===============================================================================
I
 looked at this mailing list archive and did not find anything that matched my
problem.

Any ideas????

Thanks
Jim