Linux on an HP x4000 with Fire GL4 video

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I recently received a surplus X4000 CAD workstation. The machine came with a fire GL4 video card (ATI??). I am trying to load Mepis on this beast, and I am having video configuration issues. Mepis boots but will not start xwindows. I get a no screens found error. I tried running xf86config from the comand line, but can't seem to find configuration that works. Does anyone have any experience with getting this video card to work in Linux? I am out of ideas. I have tried the generic ATI driver as well as the generic VGA driver. Neither will work. I have also tried several different versions of mepis (3.3, 3.3.1, and 3.3.2 test 02) as well as Suse 9.2. any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

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I am not sure what exactly to do, I don't have much experiance with ATI stuff.

Here is a support page from HP:
http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/l...oducts/clients/x4000-drivers-cert.html

However the versions of Redhat that HP supported on those guys are completely obsolete and you should avoid them.

Try using the generic "vesa" driver. See if that works. This is a workstation-class video card, which I don't know much about. I can see though ATI not feeling like supporting all the legacy stuff that a typical PC video card has to support (such as VGA compatability)

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/def...deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=300

ATI does offer drivers for it. You could try installing those. Be sure to read the FAQ and be sure to read other information aviable on ATI's website.

Keep in mind that this isn't a consumer gaming card. Even in Windows it's not realy going to be compatable with many 3d games... and in Linux it's probably even worse.

Good Luck.