ATI Rage video card

[BryanG3301]

Hey everyone, I've been on Linux Ubuntu for a total of about 4 weeks now and I've loved it except for the fact everytime I reboot I get a new screen resolution. I've had two friends try to assist me with getting it configured but to no luck. We believe the resolution issue is because Ubuntu isn't "reading" the video card for some reason, possibly the monitor as well. My Monitor is a Gateway EV910 CRT and below I'll post the sudo lshw -C video from my video card. If you need anything else about it, please let me know and I'll post away.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Bryan

bryan@BryanG3301:~$ sudo lshw -C video
[sudo] password for bryan:
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: agp agp-2.0 pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=32 mingnt=8

[Prospero2006]

Are you familair with /etc/X11/xorg.conf

?

[BryanG3301]

Yeah one of my Linux friends informed me of it and this is the reply:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

[Dr.Ninethousand]

I don't know what's going on with Hardy and xorg, but I keep seeing 'blank' xorg.conf files like that.. I had to generate a useful xorg.conf in Debian and copy it over..

[BryanG3301]

hmmmmmm and how would that be done exactly???? I apologize for my noob-ness at this.

[Dr.Ninethousand]

well I don't recommend it, but what I did was actually install Debian and make a copy of it's xorg.conf file, then re-install Ubuntu again and use that file.. this was on a 500MHz Celeron that's over a decade old.. I'm sure you can find a better solution..


I have read that Gutsy didn't have this problem, so you might try booting into a live CD of Ubuntu 7.10 aka Gutsy, and saving the xorg.conf from there to a floppy or usb drive. then boot back into Hardy and replace xorg.conf with the one you saved from Gutsy.. I tried this solution myself, and I'm sure it would have worked, but the computer I was working on wouldn't boot 7.10..