Re: Debian Sid, stock kernel 2.4.27, latest fglrx .. X starts but no image comes up?

[Timothee Besset <ttimo at idsoftware dot com>]

Well actually, this card may be dual head, but I'm only trying to get a 
single head working, that is the CRT monitor that's plugged in. The 
other head is DVI and I don't have anything to plug there. The "Standard 
VGA" device in the XF86Config was generated by xf86config, but it's not 
actually used.

I tried with ChipID and BusID "PCI:1:0:0" and that doesn't change 
anything. If I use PCI 1, then the X server bails out with no screen 
found ( no monitor connected to the other head I guess ).

TTimo

Örjan Persson wrote:

> Timothee Besset (ttimo at idsoftware dot com) wrote:
>  
>
> > I just installed a brand new Debian Sid system with a Radeon 9800 XT, 
> > and I can't get the latest ATI drivers running. I have the DRI drivers 
> > running fine ( "radeon" driver ), but I'm hitting a wall with the 
> > "fglrx" one.
> >    
>
> [..]
>
>  
>
> > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 NJ [Radeon 9800 XT] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> > 	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0002
> > 	Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
> > 	Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> > 	I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
> > 	Memory at de800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> > 	Expansion ROM at effe0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> > 	Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
> > 	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> >
> > 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 NJ [Radeon 9800 XT] (Secondary)
> > 	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0003
> > 	Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
> > 	Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> > 	Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> > 	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> >
> >    
>
> [..]
>
> I guess you're running dual screens. Maybe that is why you have
> problems. I'll try to give you some hints. But since I'm not in a dual
> system - and never have been - I don't know how that feels like. ;)
>
> I've deleted some lines below, so it's not correctly quoted.
>
>  
>
> > # **********************************************************************
> > # Graphics device section
> > # **********************************************************************
> >
> > # Standard VGA Device:
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >    Identifier	"Standard VGA"
> >    VendorName	"Unknown"
> >    BoardName	"Unknown"
> > #    Chipset	"generic"
> >    Driver     "vga"
> > #    BusID      "PCI:0:10:0"
> > #    VideoRam	256
> > #    Clocks	25.2 28.3
> > EndSection
> >
> > # Device configured by xf86config:
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >    Identifier  "Card"
> > Driver "fglrx"
> > Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
> > Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
> > Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
> >
> > EndSection
> >
> >    
>
> You should really use the BusID which you have above in your
> configuration. You can see the ID's above from lspci. That's probably
> why you get the warning below:
>
>  
>
> > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
> > (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
> > (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
> > (--) Chipset ATI R350 NJ (R9800) found
> >    
>
> And btw, DRI won't probably work if ATI hasn't fixed it in the newer
> releases. This FAQ gives a workaround for it tho:
> http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html#4_9800xt
>
> Also, be sure to checkout the forums and the howto on rage3d:
> http://www.rage3d.com/content/articles/atilinuxhowto/
>
> Örjan
>
>
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