Hello, i have just installed Debian and am having problems getting XFree86 to work with my setup I have three displays driven by an (APG) ATI Radeon 9600 and a (PCI) ATI Radeon 7000. I have attached the output from 'lspci' for further information. Running startx initialy (after the debian installer default setup) doesn't work and produces two interesting errors: (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:6:2:0) found (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:240:16:0) found (I have attached the log from this attempt as XFree86.0.log.initial) Realising that setting up all three monitors would be hard, at this point I opted to just get the primary monitor working and work on the other two later. Seeing this message I changed my XF86Config-4 so that the only Device section's BusID matched the first error reported (PCI:6:2:0). Upon this change, every invocation of startx hung with a black screen and caused a kernel panic. I used the Debian installer CD to mount and chroot my system so that I could change the config file. This time I changed the BusID to that of the second error (PCI:240:16:0) and rebooted. This time, when startx was called the kernel didn't pannic - but something rather odd hapend. The center screen went black and some "noise" flashed accross both the center and right screen for a second. It is worth noting that both these screens are driven by the primary video card. The log showed a different message this time. Something along the lines of: Caught signal 11. Server aborting. I have attached this error log as XFree86.0.log.second. This is as far as I have got. I have googled and googled, changed this setting and that - but nothind. I can't get any further. Is this a bad configuration? Or perhaps a bad ATI driver? I doub't this though as the primary card (the only one I am telling X to pay attention to) was the default video card shipped with PowerMacs a year ago when I bought it. Surley suport for such a common card in the 'G5' range could not be missing? Just in case it helps, I have attached my XF86Config-4 for your reference. I would be so apreciative of any help getting this working. Thanks! Noah
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