Debian: Reconfiguring X to new video card

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:52:55AM -0500, Paul King wrote:
> Thanks for that, although it doesn't get me the graphical interface.

No, XF86Setup was a 3.x X thing, not 4.x.

> Secondly, doiing a "startx" after dpkg-configure doesn't detect my card, and if 
> it does detect it (as happens under "xf86cfg"), it fails to configure a screen 
> for it.
> 
> lspci finds an ATI card at 1:0.0, but doing a scanpci says the card is an ATI, 
> but goes no further in offering information on the model.
> 
> The card works perfectly under M$ Windows 2000.
> 
> Any suggestions? Is the card too new? (the model has been out for about 2 years 
> now). It is a Radeon 9200 AGP card, with 128 MB RAM.

It will work fine once you are running version 4.3.

Lennart Sorensen
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