Re: radeon and X: was X won't start: Resolved

[David Meiser <dmeiser420@netscape.net>]

Personally, "Give up" isn't in my vocab.  Here's what you do (and what worked for me on my Radeon 8500):
1) download/compile/install a 2.6.0 series kernel, modularizing the Direct Rendering stuff for Radeon, and AGPGART, and whatever your motherboard and processor specific setup is
2) Add agpgart, *motherboard*_agp, ati_agp, *processor*_agp to /etc/modules.
3) Reboot, make sure you didn't mess up your kernel configuration.  If you did, go back to one and repeat.
4) add this to your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
    Section "Device"
        Identifier      "ATI Radeon 9700"
        Driver          "radeon"
        Option          "UseFBDev"              "true"
        Option          "AGPMode"               "4"
I'm not sure that AGPMode of 8 is supported, I'm sure somebody will tell you once I send this.  Make sure you change the label in the Screen configuration, too.
4) Restart X, look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log and look for this:  (II) RADEON(0):  Somewhere around there you'll find:  (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled (or disabled).  If you're still turning up with nothing, e-mail the list again.

Hope this works for you, it worked for me.

Peace,
DAVE

I'm willing to give up on this card for a while.  What I'd like is a
card that supports lots of unusual and low resolutions.  I don't
really need 3D accel.
    

The solution was fairly simple.  I gave up.

Several responders gave suggestions that are beyond my current
understanding.  I'm going to wait until I have more in depth
understanding of Debian and Linux in general or there is a tried and
tested package.

For now I'm just going to use "vesa"


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