Re: ATI Radeon 7500 & Woody - Unknown Chipset (0x5157)
>On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 08:01:02AM -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
>I'm using a backport of 4.3.0. Never tried with 4.1; I got 4.3.0
>before I got the 7500.
Well, I'm using a 8500LE (Hercules) graphics adapter. As this is supported in
4.1.0 without any trouble, I find it hard to belive the 7500 is not
supported. According to dri homepage, the 7500 is also working with their
drivers, so it should be possible to get even accelerated X (I do so with my
8500).
Related to the current problem, it would have been nice to have heard whether
or not the suggestion of commenting out the PCI ID option had a positive
effect. Right now, I assume that tip either didn't make it to the questioner
or had no effect (which would be rather strange...). At least a different
error message would be helpful.
This asside, there's a not so elegant way to steer around this problem. Using
the commercial ati drivers, available at www.ati.com. From my experience, I
would suggest to use them as a last resort, the discussion on /. seemed to
indicate, this new version suffers from some ugly bugs, but You should get at
least a picture.
>From memory, the driver is called "radeon", not "ati". "ati" is for
>earlier cards. I don't recognise any of the values for "XX" in the
>"Radeon XX" entries in your XFree86.0.log as belonging to the 7500,
>but as I say, it's not on this box, so I may be wrong here.
This is not correct. I don't remeber what the radeon driver was made for, I
assume it was the original radeon in X 4.0. In woody (again with the 8500)
the relevant driver is "ati". I've attached my XF86Config, this one is
working right now (and working greatly in conjunction with the dri hardware
acceleration).
js
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### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the
# Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
#
# If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make changes
# before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after the
# "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below.
#
# To change things within the debconf section, run the command:
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
# as root. Also see "How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated
# XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?" in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz.
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "pex5"
Load "record"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
Load "xie"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "ati"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 30-92
VertRefresh 50-70
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Video Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
### END DEBCONF SECTION
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