Bug#419537: Video hardware (ATI Radeon 9500 Pro) not recognized during installation

[Fabian Greffrath <fabian.greffrath@lycos.de>]

Package: installation-reports

Boot method: netinst

Machine: Targa Desktop 02/2003
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+
Memory: 758M

Hi!

Sorry, this will be no detailed installation-report, because apart from
this minor issue everything went smooth. But:

My video hardware has not been detected properly and I found my xorg
configured to use the 'vesafb' driver instead of 'ati' or 'radeon'.

My graphics card is an ATI Radeon 9500 Pro. This is the output for
lspci:

        $ lspci -vvv
        [...]
        02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R300 AD
        [Radeon 9500 Pro] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
                Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 0002
                Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV-
        VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
                Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
        >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
                Latency: 224 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
                Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
                Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
        [size=128M]
                Region 1: I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
                Region 2: Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        [size=64K]
                [virtual] Expansion ROM at e4000000 [disabled]
        [size=128K]
                Capabilities: <access denied>
        
        02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc R300 AD [Radeon
        9500 Pro] (Secondary)
                Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 0003
                Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV-
        VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
                Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
        >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
                Region 0: Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
        [disabled] [size=128M]
                Region 1: Memory at e5010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        [disabled] [size=64K]
                Capabilities: <access denied>

My machine is manufactured by Targa, a company which is known for
`relabeling' the OEM hardware they assemble. For example, my motherboard
is an 'ASUS A7N8X Targa Edition' with its own firmware version which is
incompatible with the stock ones from the ASUS-Website. However, I guess
that the failed hardware detection of the graphics card has to do with
some modifications the hardware vendor did to the device.

Please reassign this bug to an appropriate package if this is not an
installer issue!

Thank you very much for your effort!!

Cheers,
Fabian