Ross Boylan wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
> Version: 1.2.1-2
> Severity: important
>
> Might warrant higher severity, since it prevents any graphical use of the
> system.
>
No. Higher severity are for packages breaking the system. Not having X
is far from preventing the system from working :)
> In fact, my immediate reaction was that the installation had failed; console
> based virtual
> terminals (and switching to them) still work.
> Might be a bug in some installer component.
>
Why? Your xorg.conf looks good. If there's a bug, it's more likely in
the X driver or server.
> This was a fresh install on new hardware (multi-core 64 bit Xeon; amd64
> architecture) with
> the released Lenny installer. I did the graphical install, selecting KDE
> under advanced
> options. I don't recall even a chance to customize the video, and I haven't
> touched it.
>
That's the expected behavior, the Xserver is supposed to configure many
things automatically.
> Oddly, there are no errors, and only 2 warnings (full logs below):
> (WW) RADEONHD: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:3:0:1) found
>
You can ignore this.
> (WW) RADEONHD(0): Failed to set up write-combining range
> (0xd0000000,0x10000000)
>
Shouldn't cause any problem, maybe just some lower performance.
> The system arrived with Debian Etch installed, and had video then. I believe
> a proprietary
> driver was installed; that will be my next move. Some vanilla vga driver is
> another possibility.
>
You should try radeonhd 1.2.4 but it's only built for experimental so
far. So I rebuilt for Lenny for at
http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/rebuilds/radeonhd-1.2.4-Xserver1.4/
If radeonhd fails, you should then try the radeon driver as well. There
6.9.0 in Lenny which may work on your board. If it doesn't, you could
try amd64 packages of the very recent radeon 6.11.0 at
http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/rebuilds/ati-6.11.0-Xserver1.4/
Brice
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