severity #522027 important thanks > As I recently updated my monitors into 24" TFTs I noticed that I also > should to upgrade graphics card as the earlier ASUS Geforce 8500 Silent > had only DVI+VGA and I wanted two digital connections, thus I bought > this Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 Ultimate (RV730XT GPU) card. But I am having > hard time to get the drivers up and running. I managed to compile the > required kernel module for the self-built kernel image fine, but there > the success ended: if I run "aticonfig --initial=dual-head" that program > segmentation faults, in single user mode I got also following details > about the reason for this: > aticonfig[nnn] general protection ip:b7bdd256 sp:bf9fde58 error:0 in > libc-2.9.so[b7b6a000+15a000] > > I have also tried manual editing on xorg.conf and the best result has > been that I get garbled screen, most of the time the result is that > system halts after starting X (screen briefly blinks white and then > black and also keyboard caps and screen lock lights blink). Also tried > kernel upgrade, but as reported also in another bug report compilation > of fglrx module fails on 2.6.29. I noticed also the udev related bug > about the missing device file and followed the hint there, but I still > get the same errors as earlier and I'm starting to be desperate enough > that I may soon switch back to the old graphics card...
Hello, what happens if you do following: # mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup # aticonfig --initial -f Then start X11 and edit your settings with amdcccle. Anyway this is at all not grave.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
