Radeon and Fedora?

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I recently got a 256 MB Radeon 9600 Video card to replace my old Geforce 3. Now, X.org won't start in Fedora! I ran Xorg -configure (or whatever the config program is), and it says no screen can be found! I read the X drivers readme for ATI cards (in /usr/lotsandlostsofothersubfoldersthativeforgottenthenameof), and it says the Radeon cards are not supported!

I don't want to be stuck without X! What can I do?
 
Fedora Core (2 and 3) autodetected my Radeon Mobility 9600 just fine.

Currently I am running FreeBSD, but here are the pertinent parts of my xorg.conf...
Code: 
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "ATIRadeon"
    Driver      "radeon"
    #VideoRam    256
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

And for the screen...
Code: 
# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present.  Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen.  A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "ATIRadeon"
    Monitor     "LCD1600x1200"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
#        Depth       16
#        Modes       "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
	Modes	    "1280x1024" "800x600"
#        ViewPort    0 0
#        Virtual     0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Did you try generic vga drivers?
Code: 
# Standard VGA Device:

Section "Device"
    Identifier	"Standard VGA"
    VendorName	"Unknown"
    BoardName	"Unknown"

# The chipset line is optional in most cases.  It can be used to override
# the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.

#    Chipset	"generic"

# The Driver line must be present.  When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module.  Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.

    Driver     "vga"
# The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
# this section is intended for.  When this line isn't present, a device
# section can only match up with the primary video device.  For PCI
# devices a line like the following could be used.  This line should not
# normally be included unless there is more than one video device
# intalled.

#    BusID      "PCI:0:10:0"

#    VideoRam	256

#    Clocks	25.2 28.3

EndSection
 
Ok, I'll try that. I've looked at my xorg.conf, but none of the books I have have any really useful information on editing it. I'll also have to refresh my vi or emacs knowlege :grumpy:
 
emacs: ctrl-x-s to save changes, ctrl-x-c to quit.

vi: all I know is q! quits without saving changes....:lol:
 

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