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Re: XF4.1 on ATI Mobility Radeon 7500



You can try 
XFree86 -configure


On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Oleg wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I've installed Debian on half a dozen different machines, and configuring X 
> has always been the greatest pain. Currently, I'm trying to do this on a 
> Fujitsu Lifebook E-7110 laptop that has an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 card 
> (32MB) and an LCD that can do up to 1400x1050 @ 60 Hz.
> 
> When I tried installing Mandrake 9.0 just for kicks, it configured X without 
> even asking me any questions (I should have probably saved its XF86Config-4 
> for reference, but I didn't). Now with Debian on the same machine instead, I 
> spent all night trying to get ANY graphics to work. WTF?
> 
> I tried 
> `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86`,  `xf86cfg` and `xf86configure` basically 
> trying to select "ati" or "radeon" drivers, "PCI:1:0:0" as BusID (`lspci -vv` 
> says that the ATI card is at "01:00.0"), and I choose 1280x960 @ 60 Hz 
> resolution, among other things. The error that X gives me is "No devices 
> found".
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Oleg
> 
> P.S. Please Cc: your replies to me.
> 
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