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Xorg on openSuSE on certain ES1000 ATI card on HP server
I ought to blog about this, too, but I don't have all the details anymore. I was asked to fix X on an HP server running OpenSuSE. It has an ATI ES1000 card of some sort. I should have the output of lspci for you but I don't, I was in a hurry, it's not my server and I don't have access to it now. I can update the post if I find out.
The graphics works fine in fail safe mode booting with the kernel option "x11failsafe" (- what does this do exactly, anyway?). When booting without this, the graphics are milky and half transparent and almost unreadable.
What solves the problem is the line
ChipID 0x515a
in the "Device" section. The radeon or ati driver gives same result. The graphics with this option are not quite what I would accept on my daily workstation - but certainly good enough for a server.
I found it on an Ubuntu forum - thanks to the guy sharing this! I think this is the one: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=476124
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I have struggled with this for hours and with 1 letter change thanks to your blog - its fixed.I love Google and People who make the effort to assist others!
I hacve exactly this problem.How do I find the right copy of xorg.conf to edit?
Hello ScottI don't remember having a problem locating the file, so I guess I found it in /etc/X11 or something similar. I don't have access to a SuSE box now. If there are several xorg.conf files, perhaps you can make a change via the GUI config tool and see which file changed?
If there is no xorg.conf in /etc/X11 try "locate xorg.conf" or if that doesn't work, the graphical file manager probably has a search function.
Thanks a lot.I resolved this problem in my suse enterprise Server 11.
I changed /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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