Re: Video card recognition
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 11:06, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
> I probably should have figured out this by my self, but I have not
> succeded. I'm greatful if someone have an idea what is wrong, or what the
> solution might be.
>
> It seems I havn't got Debian to recognize my videcard. Before installing
> debian, my DivX movies where running smoothly, but now the movies run
> staccato (stops and goes) all the time. Besides that there is no problem
> with the picture in Win.Man.
>
> I would guess that debian isn' t using the full video memory or somethong
> like that? Is there any configchanges I could do or any files/progs that
> will fix it?
>
> I have tried editing the XF86Config-4 file changing the resolution and
> depth. I even tried to add a subsection containing depth = 32. The result
> to all my changes: window manager wouldn't start.
>
> Video card: Asus V7700 (D) with 32Mb video memory. Asus.com could only
> help me with driverfiles for Windows!!!
>
> OS: Debian Sarge kernel 2.4.26-1-386
looking at the source tree:
root@whs1/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.26-1/drivers/video# grep -ri 'asus' *
sis/init301.c:#define ASUS_HACK /* Needed for Asus A2H 1024x768 (EMI) */
sis/init301.c: /* Asus
1024x768: ? ? (1.10.8o; CR36=?2) */
sis/init301.c: /* Asus 1024x768: 0x08, 0x10, 0x3c
(problematic) YES (1.10.8q; CR36=22) */
sis/init301.c:#ifdef ASUS_HACK
sis/init301.c: if(SiS_Pr->SiS_CustomT == CUT_ASUSA2H_2) {
sis/init301.c: if(SiS_Pr->SiS_CustomT == CUT_ASUSA2H_2) {
sis/init301.c: if(SiS_Pr->SiS_CustomT == CUT_ASUSA2H_2) {
sis/init301.c: case 206: CRT2Part2Ptr = SiS310_CRT2Part2_Asus1024x768_3;
break;
sis/init301.c: UCHAR asus1024_740[] = { 0x19, 0x6e, 0x01, 0x19, 0x09 };
sis/init301.c: UCHAR asus1400_740[] = { 0x19, 0x6e, 0x01, 0x19, 0x09 };
sis/init301.c: if(SiS_Pr->SiS_CustomT == CUT_ASUSL3000D) tableptr =
asus1024_740;
sis/init301.c: if(SiS_Pr->SiS_CustomT == CUT_ASUSL3000D) tableptr =
asus1400_740;
sis/init301.c: if(SiS_Pr->SiS_CustomT == CUT_ASUSL3000D) {
sis/oem310.h:/* Asus A2xxxH _2 */
sis/oem310.h:static const SiS_Part2PortTblStruct
SiS310_CRT2Part2_Asus1024x768_3[] =
sis/sis_main.h: "Asus", "L3000D/L3500D", CUT_ASUSL3000D, "ASUS_L3X00"
sis/sis_main.h: "Asus", "A2H (V1)", CUT_ASUSA2H_1, "ASUS_A2H_1"
sis/sis_main.h: "Asus", "A2H (V2)", CUT_ASUSA2H_2, "ASUS_A2H_2"
sis/vstruct.h:#define CUT_ASUSL3000D 12
sis/vstruct.h:#define CUT_ASUSA2H_1 17
sis/vstruct.h:#define CUT_ASUSA2H_2 18
try
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
and pick the above driver.
I also checked kernel version 2.6.8 but it has the same...
Failing that, find an older videocard, eg Radeon
hope this helps ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Vegard!
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