Re: Woody on ThinkPad A31

[William Enck <wenck@psu.edu>]

I have an ATI Radeon 7500 mobility in my Dell i4150. Everything is
working find in unstable with X 4.2.1

First, how did you configure X? Did you use debconf? Debconf doesn't
give the "radeon" option when selecting the driver for you card.

Also, what does your config look like? And what exactly is the error you
get. Yes, it says no availible screens, but that is because something
further up failed. What does /var/log/XFree86.0.log say?

William Enck

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:41:55PM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> Hi there:
> Guess I'm new around here, so hello to everyone.
> I recently bought a IBM ThinkPad A31, which uses a ATI Radeon 7500 mobiliti as 
> it's video card. Using woody, I can't setup my X server. when I issue the 
> command "startx" it gives me fatal errors like: "no screen found". I checked 
> the screen section of the XFree86 config file, and it seems to be ok. As I 
> have also installed mandrake 9.0 on this machine and mandrake worked 
> flawlessly (with 24 bit colour and 1400x1050 resouloution), I thought the 
> problem might be because mandrake uses XFree86 4.2.1 and woody uses 4.1.0, so 
> I upgraded X to 4.2.1 but things didn't improve. Am I missing anything here? 
> or has anyone experienced something similar with Radeon 7500?

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William Enck
wenck@psu.edu