Re: Ati Radeon 8500, startx issue
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:08:17 +0200
Nicos Gollan <gtdev@spearhead.de> wrote:
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> On Sunday 20 October 2002 12:15, BacheK wrote:
> > I got a ati radeon 8500 I've been trying to make for a while. (3d)
> >
> > Downloaded and compiled latest driver dri.sourceforge.net. I got
> > agpgart and AMD760 agp chipset built as modules. When I've loaded
> > all modules and everything seem to be ok I do startx. The monitor
> > switches to black for a while and there seem to be signal. But after
> > ~7s the monitor switches to standbymode and there don't seem to be a
> > signal anymore. I've to do crtl+alt+delete then.
> >
> > monitor section from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> > Section "Device"
> > Identifier "grafik"
> > Driver "ati"
> > # ChipSet "ati"
> > VendorName "ATI"
> > Option "AGPMode" "4"
> > # Card "radeon"
> > VideoRam 65536
> > EndSection
>
> Use the "radeon" driver. I had problems when using "ati" as driver,
> but I was less lucky. It just froze my system completely.
>
> > I'll send XFree86.0.log as an attachment.
>
> Try again ;-)
>
> Anyway, look through the log and see if you can find anything about
> version mismatches. The DRI drivers, especially the radeon ones, are
> hardcoded to the kernel DRM driver version and will complain if
> there's a mismatch. If you installed from their daily releases, this
> should have been updated automatically (replacing the radeon.o
> module).
>
> > If I had knowledge about the lousy radeon8500 support in linux I
> > would never had bought it. :(
>
> Similar situation here, but the card is so good in terms of 2D quality
>
> that I'm not too likely to switch to anything with decent 3D support
> (nvidia) anytime soon.
Hi, Radeek told be howto fix it earlier today.
Everything I had done were correct, but the dri binarys had problems so
I catched an older working one.
Then everything worked perfectly!
cheers
bkw
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