Distorted Mirroed Overlapping screen with ATI Rage card

BullShark · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2012 Posts: 15

http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/qq4qz9jf/0705122206.jpg

This is what my laptop's screen with a newly installed Gentoo system running twm to test X looks like. It's distorted with overlapping and mirrored image. I have a Dell Latitude C800 with the video card.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Rage Mobility M4 AGP [1002:4d46]
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:00a3]
Kernel driver in use: aty128fb

Yes, I have compiled the r128 driver directly into the kernel. Various people around the internet had posted xorg.conf that was supposed "ati" as the driver. I do not have that driver. I substituted in the same xorg.conf with r128, and I still had the same issue. I tried with no xorg.conf (the default), and I couldn't startx, errored and crashed. I had also tried X -configure and had the same distorted screen. I know it is possible to get this working just fine. I had it working just fine in Arch Linux with r128. I really don't want to go back to using Arch. I already used fdisk on it to install this new Gentoo system.
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slugggerzzz · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 10:59 am Post subject:

download ati-config and manually change all the settings for you're screen settings.

Its easy one you read all the man pages.

I have had the same problems on Slackware with similar card.

need any more help just send me a message.
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BullShark · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2012 Posts: 15

I fixed the issue by using this xorg.conf

http://vpaste.net/ZvO53

And also I emerged:

emerge -av x11-drivers/xf86-video-r128

I am still interested in the ati-config utility. Where can I get that? On a 15" laptop monitor, 1600x1200 made the text look super tiny. If I change the resolution lower, the bug comes back. I fixed that with a different solution. Maybe somebody is googling and finds this post, so I will tell how I did it.

My .Xdefaults changes the DPI settings. The DPI settings did not affect the text inside of urxvt. I put another setting in my .Xdefaults that fixed that, so now I do not need a lower resolution.

.Xdefaults