Re: Radeon X600
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:51 +0100, Lee Redmayne wrote: > > I've just got a lovely new beastie which has a PCI-Express Asus Radeon X600 > in it... Running Sarge 2.6.8-1.i386 and XF86 4.3.0.1, P4 "530", 512MB, 80GB > SATA drive etc etc.. I had a similar experience when I got my shiny new Asus X800 XT.. ATI's official drivers (proprietary) do not yet support their PCIE products; neither does XFree86 (as far as I was able to tell). My solution was to install x.org from source; this may work for you as well (no 3d support, but 2d works quite well). You can find a reasonable description of how to do this non-intrusively (into /usr/local) at this site: http://incubator.vislab.usyd.edu.au/roller/page/Steve?catname=Debian There are some comments below (myself and others) on how to integrate it with Debian (ie. make things like gdm/startx work seamlessly). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Radeon X600
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:51:54AM +0100, Lee Redmayne wrote: > Hi all > > I've just got a lovely new beastie which has a PCI-Express Asus Radeon X600 > in it... Running Sarge 2.6.8-1.i386 and XF86 4.3.0.1, P4 "530", 512MB, 80GB > SATA drive etc etc.. > > However, on running XF86, I am getting the following error: > > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 > (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Generic Video Card". > (WW) ATI: PCI Mach64 in slot 1:0:1 could not be detected! > (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 could not be detected! > (EE) No devices detected. Have you got agpgart in the kernel? I suspect not. Having it as a module and loading it before starting X (e.g. via /etc/modules) should work too... > I used the ati driver in xf86config but it's not recognising it as you can > see... ATI do have an X11 4.3 driver on their site, but it's a lovely RPM > binary and Alien fails to install it saying: > > dpkg: error processing fglrx_4.3.0-4.14_i386.deb (--install): > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2', which is also in package > xlibmesa-gl The fglrx package *will* overwrite the GL stuff - apparantly they do hardware accelleration of it, whereas the generic VESA one doesn't. If you don't need the old vesa one, you could: dpkg --force-overwrite --install fglrx_4.3.0-4.14_i386.deb (you probably have to convert it to a .deb first and then install separately) Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com ... An rfc2324 advocate http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2324.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Radeon X600
At Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:51:54 +0100, Lee Redmayne wrote: > However, on running XF86, I am getting the following error: > > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 > (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Generic Video Card". > (WW) ATI: PCI Mach64 in slot 1:0:1 could not be detected! > (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 could not be detected! > (EE) No devices detected. Edit `/etc/X11/XF86Config-4'. Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video Card" Driver "radeon" EndSection +- | Kouji TAKAO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | gpass, apt-support - SourceForge.net | Fingerprint: 0BB6 ED68 5A4F F01A D85D 40F9 714F 5E99 1919 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
