[nylug-talk] ATI Radeon X200 video w/Xandros server?

[H. G.]

On 7/25/07, R. Mariotti <r.mariotti at fdcx.net> wrote:
>
> > Have you asked xandros if they have any recommendations?
>
> And YES, via my PAID support contract with Xandros for this server they
> responded with suggestions to make to my xorg.conf which I did but
> didn't change anything.
>
> And regarding Zach's recommendation about ubuntu, I am replacing Ubuntu
> 6.06 with this for project specific reasons. The ubuntu screens worked
> just fine.  I also originally ran SLED 9 on this box and it worked well
> too.  So who'd of thought that this next iteration wouldn't?
>
> Go figure.  Somewhere there's got to be an ATI guru or at least someone
> else who has already pulled all his hair out to the roots!
>
> Thanks
>

Since I doubt that the Xandros GUI utlity requires the full power of the ATI
video card, why
don't you try running X with a much more conservative configuration?  Like
perhaps using
just the plain VESA driver, while running your screen at something like 8x6?
Did you check whether utilites like "xorgconfig" are available to you?

Or, alternatively, since this is Debian based, how about you try installing
"xdebconfigurator"
to generate a default configuration for you?