Debian: Reconfiguring X to new video card

[Anton Markov]

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Try upgrading to XFree86 4.3 as others have suggested, then make sure
your XF86Config-4 file specifies "radeon" rather than "ati" as the
driver module for the video card.  Debian seems to not detect Radeons
properly (even the "unstable" version detects my Radeon 7000 as a ATI
Radeon VE and loads "ati" rather than "radeon" module for it).  Also,
take a look on the ATI website under "drivers".  They have special
FireGL drivers for Linux for their 9x00 cards.

You may also have to get the latest 2.4 kernel to have support for the
4.3 version DRI modules (radeon amongst them).  The latest kernel also
has added support for AGP devices, although that is probably not the
problem in your case.

Also, try:

# lsmod | grep agp
# lsmod | grep radeon

to see if the radeon/agp drivers are loaded.  Load them if they aren't,
then do:

# dmesg | grep agp
# dmesg | grep radeon

if there is a problem with your hardware drivers, there should be an
error in there.  If you can't figure it out, send the output to the list.

Which kernel version are you running?

# uname -a



Paul King wrote:
> Thanks for that, although it doesn't get me the graphical interface.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Paul King
> 
> 
>>Paul King wrote:
>>
>>>Hello:
>>>
>>>Just wondered what suggestions people have for reconfiguring X under Debian 3.
>>
>>...
>>dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
>>

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