On Saturday 19 October 2002 03:31, Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Apostolod Dimitromanolakis wrote:
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:39:11 -0400
From: Apostolod Dimitromanolakis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: ATI Radeon 7500 fails in XFree 4.2
Hi to everybody,
I have some trouble trying to make my new ATI RADEON 7500 (OEM, made
by ATI) work with XFree 4.2.0/1. When X Server start no problems
are reported but the screen goes to standby mode. Of course there
is nothing on the screen and moreover when I switch desktops the
screen does not turn on. However the sustem keeps working ok and
does not halt.
I have tried disabling acceleration (noaccel) and the card works
ok. Also the VESA driver works fine. The video card works fine in
Win32.
I'm sending you my config file and the X Server log.
Your video card was not made by ATI. ATI made video hardware has
a vendor ID and subvendor ID of 0x1002, yours has a subvendor ID
of 0x174b, which is a Powered by ATI board made by PC Partner
Limited.
From your log file:
(II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 1002,5157 card 174b,7161 rev 00 class
03,00,00 hdr 00
ATI made chip ATI didn't make card
I have exactly the same symptoms with a PowerColor ATI Radeon 7500.
A major part of the problem is that ATI made boards are to my knowledge
not sold in Europe, only OEM boards are available. I also thought I
was buying and ATI board, as ATI was all over the box in 10x bigger
letters than PowerColor, only later I learned the truth. Honestly, I
would have bought Nvidia had I known this...
I'm running Mandrake 9.0, and deciding not to give up just jet, I built
a new XFree86 rpm for it Mandrake from the XFree86 CVS sources. So far
it only works if I boot in failsafe mode, in standard linux boot X
locks down hard. Any idea why is that?
-Harri
I'm using
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