Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000
snip Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover, xserver-common and x-window-system-core, used apt pinning to get XFree86 4.3 and re-ran xf86config 'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' What can I do? snip As long as startx fails (X fails to start), kdm will fail. Run startx 2errorlog.txt and then look in errorlog.txt for any lines that begin with (EE). That's most likely the culprit. -- Kent snip Thanks, I'll report back tomorrow (I'm on my way to bed right now) with the results. Reporting back as promised. As you can see its saying it can't find any compatible drivers for my Radeon. Also, I removed xserver-common and xserver-xfree86 and installed them from the experimental tree and discover reported that it couldn't find any xservers for my particular card (the attached error.log is from after installing from the experimental tree). It says that driver version 1.1 is installed (or is it 1.3?) and that 1.5 is needed. :( error.log Description: Binary data
Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000
- Original Message - From: Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Reporting back as promised. As you can see its saying it can't find any compatible drivers for my Radeon. Also, I removed xserver-common and xserver-xfree86 and installed them from the experimental tree and discover reported that it couldn't find any xservers for my particular card (the attached error.log is from after installing from the experimental tree). It says that driver version 1.1 is installed (or is it 1.3?) and that 1.5 is needed. :( Well, my xserver is now up and running, but I am now having problems with kdm. :( Oh well, at least I've made some progress, thanks! *ponders printing off these emails* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: snip Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: 'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' snip Run startx 2errorlog.txt and then look in errorlog.txt for any lines that begin with (EE). As you can see its saying it can't find any compatible drivers for my Radeon. Not really; rather, it can't activate certain features/modules. Also, I removed xserver-common and xserver-xfree86 and installed them from the experimental tree and discover reported that it couldn't find any xservers for my particular card (the attached error.log is from after installing from the experimental tree). It says that driver version 1.1 is installed (or is it 1.3?) and that 1.5 is needed. :( (EE) Failed to load module pex5 (module does not exist, 0) Skipping /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o: No symbols found (EE) Failed to load module xie (module does not exist, 0) (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found If you only have one video card, either comment out/remove the BusID line, or make sure it matches the output of lspci (only remember that one is hex and the other decimal). (EE) RADEON(0): Failed to open framebuffer device, consult warnings and/or errors above for possible reasons (you may have to look at the server log to see warnings) Turn off the fbdev option in /etc/X11/XF86Config if it's on (true). (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch. [dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.1.1 but version 1.5.0 or newer is needed. [dri] Disabling DRI. (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse No such file or directory. (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device Configured Mouse No core pointer Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices This looks to be your real problem; it can't find your mouse as defined. You'll need to tinker with the mouse settings. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Reporting back as promised. As you can see its saying it can't find any compatible drivers for my Radeon. Also, I removed xserver-common and xserver-xfree86 and installed them from the experimental tree and discover reported that it couldn't find any xservers for my particular card (the attached error.log is from after installing from the experimental tree). It says that driver version 1.1 is installed (or is it 1.3?) and that 1.5 is needed. :( Well, my xserver is now up and running, but I am now having problems with kdm. :( Hmm, but you don't post the solution, so others having this same problem in the future don't know how to fix the problem. Nor do we who are curious get to have our curiosity satisfied. And we who are curious are left wondering what type of problems you could be having with kdm if X itself is working. But you're free to leave us in the dark, wondering, forever wondering . . . ;-) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000
Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover, xserver-common and x-window-system-core, used apt pinning to get XFree86 4.3 and re-ran xf86config 'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' What can I do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover, xserver-common and x-window-system-core, used apt pinning to get XFree86 4.3 and re-ran xf86config 'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' What can I do? As long as startx fails (X fails to start), kdm will fail. Run startx 2errorlog.txt and then look in errorlog.txt for any lines that begin with (EE). That's most likely the culprit. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000
- Original Message - From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 10:10 PM Subject: Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000 Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover, xserver-common and x-window-system-core, used apt pinning to get XFree86 4.3 and re-ran xf86config 'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' What can I do? As long as startx fails (X fails to start), kdm will fail. Run startx 2errorlog.txt and then look in errorlog.txt for any lines that begin with (EE). That's most likely the culprit. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, I'll report back tomorrow (I'm on my way to bed right now) with the results. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover, xserver-common and x-window-system-core, used apt pinning to get XFree86 4.3 and re-ran xf86config 'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' What can I do? for what it's worth, here's what i use for X4.3 on a radeon 9000 (on a toshiba tecra S1) works ok with both 2.4.23 and 2.6.0-test11 ~c ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type man XF86Config-4 at the shell prompt.) # # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make changes # before the ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION line above, and/or after the # ### END DEBCONF SECTION line below. # # To change things within the debconf section, run the command: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 # as root. Also see How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated # XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file? in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Section Files FontPathunix/:7100# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection Section Module LoadGLcore Loadbitmap Loaddbe Loadddc Loaddri Loadextmod Loadfreetype Loadglx Loadint10 Loadrecord Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe Loadsynaptics EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/psaux Option Protocol PS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Mouse Driver mouse Option SendCoreEventstrue Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section InputDevice Driversynaptics IdentifierSynaptics Touchpad OptionCorePointer true OptionDevice/dev/psaux OptionProtocol auto-dev OptionLeftEdge 1900 OptionRightEdge 5400 OptionTopEdge 1900 OptionBottomEdge4000 OptionFingerLow 25 OptionFingerHigh30 OptionMaxTapTime180 OptionMaxTapMove220 OptionVertScrollDelta 100 OptionMinSpeed 0.02 OptionMaxSpeed 0.18 OptionAccelFactor 0.0010 OptionSHMConfig on # Option Repeater /dev/ps2mouse EndSection Section Device Identifier Generic Video Card Driver ati EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor HorizSync 30-75 VertRefresh 50-85 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Generic Video Card Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth16 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1600x1200
