Re: X-server won't start on 3.0

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Cuno Sonnemans wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed Debian 3.0 today, but X won't work. I've put my XF86Config-4 
> and Log file in the email.
> I have an Club3d ATI Radeon 8500 Pro video card.
> I hope someone can help me out ???
>
> Cuno
>
> ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION

<snip>

> Section "Device"
>    Identifier    "Generic Video Card"
>    Driver        "ati"
>    Option        "UseFBDev"        "true"
> EndSection

You might try setting "UseFBDev" to "false".

<snip>

> (II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.3.6) for chipsets: ati, ativga
> (II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets: ATI Rage 128 RE (PCI),
>    ATI Rage 128 RF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RG (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RK (PCI),
>    ATI Rage 128 RL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PD (PCI),
>    ATI Rage 128 Pro PF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PP (PCI),
>    ATI Rage 128 Pro PR (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Mobility LE (PCI),
>    ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF (AGP),
>    ATI Rage 128 Mobility ML (AGP)
> (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
>    ATI Radeon QE (AGP), ATI Radeon QF (AGP), ATI Radeon QG (AGP),
>    ATI Radeon VE (AGP)
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
> (II) ATI:  Candidate "Device" section "Generic Video Card".
> (WW) ATI:  PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 could not be detected!
> (EE) No devices detected.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found

My first guess is that the 8500 is too new for the X server, but I 
really don't understand such things. Still, you might try using the 
'svga' driver instead of the 'ati' driver, just to see what happens.

Kent