Description of problem: I have several related issues. 1) The radeon driver does NOT work with RH EL 3 on AMD64 platform. I was advised to use the VESA driver by Tech Support. 2) No good widescreen resolutions are available. I've tried different modelines and configs. Nothing works which makes me believe it is a display driver issues or a monitor driver issue. I'm trying to obtain 1280x720 on an HDTV monitor using the VGA port. Tech support told me you could either provide a resolution, a patch or a new driver. Please advise on status. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Radeon 9800 video hardware is not officially supported by RHEL3, however RHEL 4 which was recently released does officially support this hardware. The "vesa" driver is limited to using video modes that are supported by the video BIOS. If the BIOS does not support a particular mode, then it wont work with that mode, even if it is the hardware's native resolution. In this case it is a BIOS limitation that only the BIOS vendor can fix via a BIOS update. This is a common problem with Intel graphics hardware in laptops for example. Widescreen video modes are not "standard" modes, and so very few BIOSes support them. As a result, the "vesa" driver will probably not work for you. Additionally, the video mode 1280x720 is not a standard video mode, so the X server may not have it built in and available for use by the native drivers. As such, you may need to manually generate a modeline for 1280x720 by hand using the "gtf" utility included with X. You can paste the generated modelines into the X server config file and try restarting it. This should work in RHEL4 I believe, but it may not work at all in RHEL3 because the Radeon 9800 hardware is not officially supported by the RHEL3 "radeon" driver. You can try it with RHEL3 nonetheless and see if it happens to work. Setting status to "NOTABUG".