[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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