OdedS

Hi!

Inspiron e1705,
Radeon Mobility x1400 + modded driver v9.11,
Windows7 64bit.

After finally fixing the issue with the backlight not turning off when closing the lid (by installing the 9.11 driver) I had a few weeks of blissful performance, until -

I was running Visual Jockey SP1 (graphic intense application). Suddenly it crashed to desktop and from then on I can't lower the resolution without black borders appearing around the image! I can only use the native resolution of 1920x1200 and that's a bit small for me...

I tried uninstalling the driver (going back to W7 default), reinstalling the 9.11 driver, installing a 10.2 driver - nothing works.

Please help - these kind of problems are soooo frustrating!

OdedS

UPDATE: managed to uninstall all ATI related stuff and reinstalled the W7 driver for x1400. Changing resolution now works with no black borders -
But, now the backlight problem is back. Doesn't shut off when I close the lid.

Any ideas? please...

OdedS

So it's been a while with no issues, until I went back into developing games, and discovered (after a long research) that OpenGL doesn't work.

While researching that problem, I rediscovered my UNANSWERED question, so for posterity's sake, here's my solution:

1. Checked Windows 7 default driver for ATI X1400 - v8.5.
2. Downloaded & installed DNA ATI driver for Windows 7, v8.5.
3. Unpacked original ATI driver for Vista64, v8.9.
4. Expanded atioglxx.dl_ into atioglxx.dll.
5. Replaced this version's atioglxx.dll and atiogl.xml with every mention of same files in any Windows subfolders.

Result: OpenGL works perfect; Resolution changes are stretched to fit screen; Backlight turns off when closing lid.

Everything I wanted and more