ATI Radeon x850 XT Platinum Edition

[Thomas McKay]

Hey Tee Jay, what you need to do is reconfigure your xorg configuration.
It's really easy. All you need to do is open up a terminal and type
"sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -phigh" , but don't change the
driver. The next screen should let you select new resolutions. Choose
all that apply, and save the configuration. In order for the new
resolutions to come into effect, you must restart xorg. Log out, hit
Ctrl Alt Backspace, and it will bring you back to the login screen,
hopefully with a new resolution. If it hasn't changed, there should be
more resolutions available to you in System > Preferences > Screen
Resolution.

Have fun!

On Wed, 2007-30-05 at 21:00 -0400, Tee Jay Rosene wrote:
> Hi folks,
> It seems I need a little information. I've recently been able to
> install Kubuntu 7.04, as it has detected my ATI Radeon x850 XT
> Platinum Edition video card. All previous versions of K/X/Ubuntu did
> not recognize this card and would freeze part way through booting up
> into the live CD (I've tried finding the answer here). 
> Luckily, things work in 7.04. My card has been detected, and I have a
> more or less nice looking display.
> Nonetheless, I would like to know if the driver "ati" as it's called
> on my system is doing being all it can be? It seems I can only display
> at 1024x768 @ 60 MHz.
> I'm just curious...I can live with my machine the way it is, or I can
> make modifications if it won't mess my system. I really don't feel
> like changing things up in Xorg too much...the last time I tried
> something like that on another machine, I kept running into trouble
> with the machine rebooting (see here).
>