Driver for Radeon x300 series, ATI technologies
Dear Debianers,
I am in the process of installing a Debain Sarge system onto a new Dell computer (dimension 8400). I have managed to get a base system installed with a 2.6.9 kernel, but I am having difficulties getting X to start. I have tried two different drivers (and needless to say, I have not found the answer in Google)
1) At the moment, I have indicated the "vesa" driver in the "Device" section of XF86Config-4. When I enter startx (or gdm), I get the message
X:warning; process set to priority -1 instead of requesting prioirtiy 0
_XSERVTransSocketOpen: socket() failed for local
(...)
Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server^isnt already running (this is not the case according to ps aux)
xinit: Address family not supported by protocol (errno 97): unable to connect to X server.
2) I also tried to use the new driver provided by ATI
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_3.14.1.html
But this driver is provided only as rpm.
So, I did "alien fglrx-4.3.0-3.14.6.i386.rpm"
When I then tried to do
dpkg -i xxx.deb
I got the message (translated from German)
"Error in processing of fglrx_4.3.0-4.14_i386.deb (--install): attempt to overwrite /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2, which is in the package xlibmesa-gl"
Does anyone have any ideas as to how to get this graphic card to work and which driver would be best suited?
Thanks
Peter
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