Re: Driver for Radeon x300 series, ATI technologies
Did you try the ati driver in the list that the installer proposes?
Alex.
Le Jeudi 13 Janvier 2005 16:14, Robinson, Peter a écrit :
> Dear Debianers,
>
> I am in the process of installing a Debain Sarge system onto a new Dell
> computer (dimension 8400). I have managed to get a base system installed
> with a 2.6.9 kernel, but I am having difficulties getting X to start. I
> have tried two different drivers (and needless to say, I have not found the
> answer in Google)
>
> 1) At the moment, I have indicated the "vesa" driver in the "Device"
> section of XF86Config-4. When I enter startx (or gdm), I get the message
>
> X:warning; process set to priority -1 instead of requesting prioirtiy 0
> _XSERVTransSocketOpen: socket() failed for local
> (...)
>
> Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X
> server^isnt already running (this is not the case according to ps aux)
>
> xinit: Address family not supported by protocol (errno 97): unable to
> connect to X server.
>
> 2) I also tried to use the new driver provided by ATI
> http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_3.14.1.html
> But this driver is provided only as rpm.
> So, I did "alien fglrx-4.3.0-3.14.6.i386.rpm"
> When I then tried to do
> dpkg -i xxx.deb
> I got the message (translated from German)
> "Error in processing of fglrx_4.3.0-4.14_i386.deb (--install): attempt to
> overwrite /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2, which is in the package xlibmesa-gl"
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to how to get this graphic card to work and
> which driver would be best suited?
>
> Thanks
> Peter
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