Debian: Reconfiguring X to new video card

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:29:20PM -0500, Paul King wrote:
> Well, I downloaded and configured most of the packages and dependencies. Then 
> came the X server. I was not given the option to configure radeon as the 
> chipset (I could only get ati), and dpkg-reconfigure would not write the new 
> configuration to /etc/X11/XF86Config. So I ran it with the original 
> configuration I intended for the card, with "radeon" as the driver in the 
> Screens section.
> 
> It crashed with the error "no screens found". I looked at the X11 error log 
> under /var/log, and I saw 4 sub-versions of my card listed in the informational 
> part of the debug output. 
> 
> There was two warnings and one error message. One warning was X complaining 
> about APM failing (I don't use APM on a PC), and the other was about the 
> Cyrillic font not being found.
> 
> Just about everything after that was informational, except the last status 
> message, an error saying "No devices detected". This is with agpgart and radeon 
> modules loaded.

If it doesn't list radeon as an option, just pick ati, then edit the
resulting XF86Config-4 file and change ati to radeon.  This is assuming
you are using xserver-xfree86 version 4.3

Lennart Sorensen
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