SuSE Linux: Version 8.0
You have a graphics device with a Radeon 7500/8500 chipset. After configuring the graphical interface, your tube-type monitor flickers.
ATI's retail versions are delivered with an adapter that allows you to connect a tube type monitor to a DVI port. Bulk versions or cards with this graphic chip of other manufacturers are often delivered without such an adapter.
If you have a DVI/VGA adapter, connect the adapter to the DVI port and the monitor to the adapter. Usually a configuration with SaX2 succeeds without causing any difficulties. If the manufacturer does not supply this adapter, proceed as described below.
SaX2
Start SaX2
. Go to the menu
"Graphics Device Setup"
and select
Properties -> Expert.
Scroll down. Click the arrow under the
menu item "Miscellaneous" and select the option
crt_screen.
Confirm with "OK"
and continue with the procedure.
The final server test should now be performed successfully.
If you started SaX2 from the graphical interface,
the X server has to be restarted to apply the changes.
/etc/X11/XF86Configas root on a console, for example, with the editor mcedit:
/usr/bin/mcedit /etc/X11/XF86Config
Search for the section "Device":
Section "Device" BoardName "Radeon 7500" BusID "1:0:0" Driver "radeon" Identifier "Device[0]" VendorName "ATI" EndSection
Add the following line:
Section "Device" BoardName "Radeon 7500" BusID "1:0:0" Driver "radeon" Identifier "Device[0]" VendorName "ATI" Option "CrtScreen" EndSection
Save the changes with F2 and exit mcedit with F10. Restart the X server for a check.
Further information on setting up the graphical interface with SaX2 can be found at:
"X Server Configuration with SaX2" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_sax2.html)
You might need to update SaX2 first as described at "Monitor not properly detected" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_sax2-80.html).