Re: Debian, X and ATI Radeon X1300
On 4/10/06, Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The graphics card in my Debian machine died a couple of weeks ago, and
> I had to buy a new one. I ended up with a ATI Radeon X1300, since I
> have had good experiences with ATI cards and Debian before.
>
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 7146
> 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 7166
>
> But it didn't work. Neither XFree86 from Sarge nor Xorg from
> backports.org find the card, so I'm currently using the "vesa" driver,
> which isn't very optimal. Is there any version of X that works with
> X1300?
>
> I tried downloading ATI's drivers, but they give an error while trying
> to build the module.
>
> make.sh: line 1: gcc-2.9: command not found
> make.sh: line 54: [: !=: unary operator expected
> ATI module generator V 2.0
> ==========================
> initializing...
> cleaning...
> patching 'highmem.h'...
> probing for VMA API version...
> check results are inconsistent!!!
> none of the probed versions did succeed.
> aborting module build.
>
> --
> \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
As Vitaliy said, the ATI binaries do not support r5xx chips (X1xxx)
and unfortunately, neither do the open source drivers. See
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon for details (bottom of the
page).
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