[GRLUG] Xorg 7, video card help
Roberto Villarreal
rvillarreal at mktec.com
Mon Jun 12 06:50:40 EDT 2006
Radeon 9600 (onboard laptop) -- no problems using stock (radeon) driver
Radeon Xpress 200G (onboard desktop) -- no problems, but only driver attached
monitor correctly using binary driver (fglrx).
I had some other dual-head ATI I bought that I had nothing but trouble with...
I had posts about it a few months ago. It was probably due to the fact of
trying to mix the binary driver with the stock driver (the ATI in question
ended up being a cheap "consumer" knockoff of a decent card that could not
use the binary driver).
Roberto
On Monday 12 June 2006 3:58 am, Bob Kline wrote:
> Just a mildly amusing aside, I pulled down copies
> of version 6.06 Ubuntu and Kubuntu, and now
> my machine, with a six year old ATI card - "Rage
> 128 Expert 2000" - works fine. Versions 5.10 of
> both systems led to the (nearly) black screens
> you describe.
>
> Strange in a way because ATI cards are high volume
> cards, and one would simply think they'd be well
> supported. But then maybe the newer ones are.
> Lots of chips over lots of years might mean that
> only the latest cards are supported?
>
> Anyone have any stories involving more current
> ATI display cards? e.g., ATI X works fine?
>
> -Bob
>
> On 6/11/06, zdennis <zdennis at mktec.com> 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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