Re: can not start X - new install woody with ATI RADEON 7500
Hi,
* Mingzhou Nie <mnie@nc.rr.com> [021212 10:23]:
> Hello, all,
>
> I'm a recent Linux user and decided to try on Debian. Installed "woody" and
> installation process went just fine. However, I can not start x.
>
> My video card is ATI radeon 7500 / 64MB SDRAM. I understand woody comes with
> XFree86 4.1.0 which just start support radeon chipset but not "RV200 QW". I
> also saw a November thread about the same problem. It seem I have to
> options.
>
> - Install XFree86 4.2.0 using its XInstall.sh
> - Add this line to your sources.list and install XFree86 4.2
>
> #XFree 4.2
> deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ sid/$(ARCH)/
If you want to upgrade X, then go for option 2. Use Brandens .deb.
> Not sure which one is better. Can someone list step by step instructions?
Choose 2. However I think these are now at:
http://people.debian.org/~frankie/debian woody/x421
So put the above in your /etc/sources.list, then do.
# apt-get update
# apt-get install xserver-xfree86
HTH, however YMV,
Nick.
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