Open source support for Radeon 6790 based Video cards.

[elmago]

On a new PC I am trying to avoid using the ATI proprietary driver (fglrx). Am I out of luck?
If I try to force the "ati" or "radeonhd" driver in MCC's Display Config, The "Test" option before actually exiting the Display Config never succeeds .. it says (EE) no hardware found or something like that. And then it reverts back to VESA.

The details:
Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-UD3 (does not have any built-in VGA chip)
VGA Card: Maker:HIS Chip: Radeon 6790 (Dom/Bus/Dev/Fn: 0/1/0/0; Vendor=1002, Dev=673E)
Mageia-1 64-bit

My enabled repos are Core Release/Updates, Non-free Release/Updates and Tainted Release/Updates. One poster had earlier suggested about the following:
x11-driver-video-ati
x11-driver-video-radeonhd
But these are already installed in my PC and things like dkms-fglrx or fglrx-control-center are not installed.

So, am I chasing something that is just not there yet?

[sglafata]

Could you post your xorg.conf file?

[elmago]

Here it is...

[sglafata]

Just for kicks and giggles, try removing all the modelines and Display subsections. Leave the two modelines for Fullscreen TV (remove the one above that line, and remove the ones below that start with 'modeline generated....'. Then change you driver from 'vesa' to 'ati'. Reboot and see what happens. Worse case scenario, you can always revert back to the vesa driver if need be, but keep the modelines out. Also, remember to take a backup of your current xorg.conf file (just in case).

FYI - My screen scales properly without the modelines in the conf file.