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Re: Debian on an iBook



On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 02:21:16PM +0100, James Dunn wrote:
> I've tried reconfiguring xserver as described below, but no luck. I 
> looked at lspci, and it says:
> 
> 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 
> Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
> Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 48
> Memory at 98000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> I/O ports at 802400 [size=256]
> Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> Expansion ROM at 90020000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> 
> when I type startx, it says:
> 
> (EE) No devices detected.
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> X10: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining
> 
> I looked at var/log/XFree86.0.log and at the end of the file it says:
> 
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:10:0
> (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 M7 LW".
> (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:16:9) 
> found
> (EE) No devices detected.

my guess is that you've mis-entered the bus information into your
xserver configuration. the Primary Device above is PCI 00:10:0 and the
(WW) line refers to PCI:0:16:9 the lspci output above says, to my eyes
that the bus id should be PCI:00:16:0 where its entered in decimal in
the configuration program and displayed in hex by lspci. 

but, follow FLorian's advice and post that stuff for us. 

A


> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:34:18AM +0100, James Dunn wrote:
> >  
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I have just installed Debian onto my iBook (900MHz PowerPC G3, 640MB 
> >>SDRAM, ATY Rage M7 Video). I followed the instructions here: 
> >>http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html
> >>1) Debian boots ok, but the X Server isn't configured properly - is 
> >>there a guide to do this? (i'm a newbie!)
> >>    
> >
> >there are many guides. the basic procedure though, is to figure out
> >what hardware you have (lspci -vv and look for the video controller)
> >and then dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86... sometimes over and over
> >until you get it right. It helps if youjust use startx to test you
> >xf86config as there's less overhead and IMO fewer potential problems
> >than as associated with [g|k|x]dm. Once you get a working X setup, if
> >you want to use a *dm, then you will know that any further problems
> >aren't associated with X. be sure to post your problems up here as
> >many can help you. be sure to include ouput from
> >/var/log/Xfree86.log.0 with a focus on (EE) lines in that log.
> >  

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