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| Author: | edmicman [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Can I swap video cards with minimal problems? |
I have been running my knoppmyth box with an old Ti4600 I robbed from my old desktop PC, and it's been working fine. I use the s-video out to go to my TV. Recently, the fan on the video card has started making noises. I have an even older 32mb ATI Rage Pro (I think that's the model?) that also has s-video out, and is fanless. Would I be able to take the Ti4600 out, put the ATI in, boot up, and not have any problems? If I need to chagne something or rerun something, what would that be? I'm able to ssh into the box, so I could do something via that if I need to. Thanks! Oh, and a somewhat related question - what's the max resolution I can run with s-video? I never changed anything from the defaults, so I think it's running at 800x600. I've got an HDTV....would I be able to set the resolution to match that, so I could at least run things widescreen or something? That's not as important right now as being able to switch the cards out, though. Any help or ideas would be appreciated! |
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| Author: | edmicman [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:22 pm ] |
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Okaaaaaaay. I swapped them, and I get an x server error. Guess that answers that. Now, on to find out what I can edit (what config would I even look at?) to get the ATI card to work... |
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| Author: | mac [ Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:21 am ] |
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The file your going to need to edit is: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 It should not be too painful getting your ATI Rage Pro to work. Google around a bit. Your going to want to replace the "device" sections in in your XF86Config-4. Maybe someone around here is using an ATI Rage Pro S-Video out and can give you sections you need... |
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| Author: | EvilTwin [ Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:03 am ] |
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There are several recent threads about getting the ATI video cards to work. A search of the forums (try "ati" and "video" as search terms) should turn up two or three within the last 2 weeks. |
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| Author: | mjl [ Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:17 pm ] |
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Hi, Why not peel the the cover off of the center of the fan, add a couple drops of sewing machine oil and go for a couple more years? The ati rage card may work with a nvidia driver or an ati driver. It will work with vesa but not sure about tv out. Mike |
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| Author: | edmicman [ Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:21 pm ] |
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Hrm, well, I edited the file, saved it, restarted gdm and x, didn't work, opened the file, something had changed the values to something else that I didn't put in, restarted again, and it actually came up and seems to be working! I'm noticing a slight wobble effect at the top of the screen, and I swear the first time I played something back it seemed like it was slower than normal, and the sound seemed to be dragging, but I paused it and when I hit play it seemed alright. :-/ 32MB should be enough for playback, right? It's just at 800x600 I think....you'd think that'd be able to handle it. Any more ideas or anything I might have missed? Thanks everyone for all the help! |
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