[GRLUG] Xorg 7, video card help

zdennis zdennis at mktec.com
Sun Jun 11 10:09:14 EDT 2006


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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