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From: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at>
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Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 2400XT - screen goes blank
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:58:00AM -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> 
> In the monitor section, try adding:
> 
>     Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
> 
> or even:
> 
>     Option "PreferredMode" "Custom-settings"
> 

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately this didn't help either :-(

In the meantime in  /var/log/Xorg.0.log I found a warning saying

(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT" (ChipID = 0x94c1)
(WW) RADEON(0): R600 support is mostly incomplete and very experimental

Could it be that I'm running in a bug here? 

How to I disable R600 support?

Is there any other driver I could use? 

How about VESA or ATI (just to get something going in the beginning)?

If yes, how do I enable VESA-Mode/ATI-Mode?


TIA for any clue,
-ewald