Re:

[Marco Mililotti <mililmar@lucy.dii.unisi.it>]

- wrote:

> OK - Ive been struggling wiht gettin X to work on my new Dell Inspiron
> 4100 since January. It has the infamous ATI Radeon card.
>
> I read through linux on laptops, copied over different xconfig files
> and still nothing. 
>
> Upgraded kernels, X, whatever it took or thought to try.
>
>
> Any ideas? 
I'm not sure if I've already replyed, however:
- I have an Asus L8470K, with -- imagine :) -- an ATI Radeon Mobility M6 
LY, and I'm running my X server for at least 8 hours a day. So it works. 
It doesn't work (for me) agp && accel support.

Now, this is what I know I/you need to let X work :
- I previously installed (december '01) XFree 4.1.99 from cvs; this was 
the first (or the very first) release to fully support this card. Now 
you can dwnl binary .tar.gz directly from XFree.org to get X4.2; install 
them -- with an easy script provided by XFree -- and try xf86cfg or 
xf86config or hit XFree86 -configure.

Notes:
- you need XFree 4.1.9x + for your graphic card
- maybe you have to manually tuning the config file XF86Config-4 you 
obtain with one of the above commands
- xf86cfg is specifically designed for XF4, but it's not perfect (hey, 
it's only stupid software, isn't it? :))
- XF4.2 deb pkg are not -- as far as I know -- available


To see if your X4 set up is able to manage your graphic card, use the 
following (as a rule of thumb) :
- as root run 'scanpci' and look for any entry about ATI device. If it's 
reported exactly the string you are expecting (in my case: "ATI Radeon 
Mobility M6 LY") then your X server should run fine: just add the Driver 
"ati" and the videoram lines. If anything with "unknown" or different 
from the above expected appear, you need to upgrade the X pkgs.
(Scanpci is a binary of X; lspci is part of the kernel and doesn't know 
all about graphic cards.)


Hope this help.
Bye,

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