[GRLUG] Xorg 7, video card help

Roberto Villarreal rvillarreal at mktec.com
Sun Jun 11 18:45:17 EDT 2006


Don't know if it is of any help (or even related), but on my desktop, any 
version of Xorg greater than 6.8 does not work.  A part of that configuration 
is an ATI card (though I'm using the binary driver).

Roberto

On Sunday 11 June 2006 10:09 am, zdennis wrote:
> I updated from Ubuntu Breezy to Ubuntu Dapper yesterday on my home box.
> I've got two video cards, a 32Mb SiS card and a 64Mb ATI Radeon 7200.
>
> The SiS card is on BusID PCI:2:6:0
> The ATI card is on my AGP slot, PCI:1:0:0
> I run extended desktop with Xinerama
>
> When running Ubuntu Breezy the stock sis and ati drivers worked great.
> After upgrading to Dapper which gave me new stock drivers and Xorg 7 the
> ATI card doesn't work. I cannot get it to work with 'ati' or 'vesa'
> drivers.
>
> When I run startx with 'ati' the monitor is just black. When I run
> startx with 'vesa' I get 'AddScreen/InitScreen failed at driver 0'.
>
> I have reduced my configuration to try to run off from the ATI card only.
>
> Below is my stripped down singlehead configuration and the outputs of
> lspci. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Zach
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Section "Files"
>         FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
>         FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
>         FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>         FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
>         FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
>         FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
>         FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
>         # path to defoma fonts
>         FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>         Load    "bitmap"
>         Load    "dbe"
>         Load    "ddc"
>         Load    "dri"
>         Load    "extmod"
>         Load    "freetype"
>         Load    "glx"
>         Load    "int10"
>         Load    "type1"
>         Load    "vbe"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>         Driver          "kbd"
>         Option          "CoreKeyboard"
>         Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
>         Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
>         Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "CorePointer"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "ExplorerPS/2"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Driver        "wacom"
>   Identifier    "stylus"
>   Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to
>                                                       # /dev/input/event
>                                                       # for USB
>   Option        "Type"          "stylus"
>   Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Driver        "wacom"
>   Identifier    "eraser"
>   Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to
>                                                       # /dev/input/event
>                                                       # for USB
>   Option        "Type"          "eraser"
>   Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Driver        "wacom"
>   Identifier    "cursor"
>   Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to
>                                                       # /dev/input/event
>                                                       # for USB
>   Option        "Type"          "cursor"
>   Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "ATI"
>         Driver          "ati"
>         BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
>         VideoRam        64000
> #        Option          "crt_display"
> #        Option          "noaccel"
>         Option          "DPMS"
>         Option          "UseFBDev"              "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
>         Option          "DPMS"
>         HorizSync       28-64
>         VertRefresh     43-60
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier      "Default Screen"
>         Device          "ATI"
>         Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
>         DefaultDepth    24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth        24
>                 Modes        "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier      "Default Layout"
>         Screen          "Default Screen"
>         InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
>         InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
>         InputDevice     "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
>         InputDevice     "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
>         InputDevice     "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
>         Mode    0666
> EndSection
> -------------------------END xorg.conf------------------------------
>
>
>
> Here is the contents of my lspci:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different
> version?) (rev c1)
> 0000:00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1
> (rev c1)
> 0000:00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4
> (rev c1)
> 0000:00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3
> (rev c1)
> 0000:00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2
> (rev c1)
> 0000:00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5
> (rev c1)
> 0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP2A ISA bridge (rev a3)
> 0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP2A SMBus (rev a1)
> 0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2A USB Controller
> (rev a1)
> 0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2A USB Controller
> (rev a1)
> 0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2A USB Controller
> (rev a2)
> 0000:00:04.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP2A Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
> 0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2S AC'97
> Audio Controller (rev a1)
> 0000:00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP2A PCI Bridge (rev a3)
> 0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP2A IDE (rev a3)
> 0000:00:0b.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Serial ATA
> Controller (rev a3)
> 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100
> QD [Radeon 7200]
> 0000:02:06.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
> 315PRO PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
> 0000:02:07.0 SCSI storage controller: Artop Electronic Corp ATP865 (rev 02)
> 0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation
> SMC2-1211TX (rev 10)
> 0000:02:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394
> Controller (Link)
> 0000:02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation
> SMC2-1211TX (rev 10)
> ----------------------------END LSPCI----------------------------------
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