Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules "ati" and "typ1" when starting X. No drivers available

2009/2/17 S D <sundimi@yahoo.com>

--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:

> For the "ati" module, you need the package:
> p xserver-xorg-video-ati - X.Org X server --
> ATI display driver

Installed the xserver-xorg-video-ati package and it did resolve the issue somewhat. I was able to start X and KDE, KDE is running and and appears to be functional (v 3.5.10) but the picture looks very strange indeed.

The picture now, for some reason, doesn't use the whole available screen space but leave unused areas about 3-5 cm from the left, right, top and bottom monitor edges. It looks something like this:

+------------1------------------+
| |
| |
| +-------2---------+ |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| +-----------------+ |
| |
| |
+-------------------------------+

Where 1 is the monitor and 2 is the picture.

I usually run my monitor in 1600x1200 mode and KDE shows it as the current resolution.

Any ideas? Thanks

I had a similar problem after the upgrade to Lenny.
My problem was that at GDM login the screen was a bit to left but inside GNOME was fine. GNOME was forcing vertical refresh rate at 75 but X was using 60, thus I had tha difference.

Try the following
1) inside GNOME/KDE open a terminal and run xvidtune and tune the settings as you wish. Then click on show button, this will print on the terminal the setting to be used in xorg.conf.
2) Use the above info to add a Modeline in the Monitor section on your xorg.conf
Furthermore, make sure the same Modeline name is in the Screen Section
Here is a snap of my xorg.conf, take a look at "1280x1024@75"

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "SDM-HS75P"
        HorizSync   28-80
        VertRefresh 48-75
        Option          "DPMS"
        Modeline "1280x1024@75"   135.00   1280 1296 1440 1688   1024 1025 1028                                               1066 +hsync +vsync
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "Nvidia FX5500"
        Monitor         "SDM-HS75P"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           1
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           4
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           8
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           15
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           16
                Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1280x1024@75" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

3) restart X

Hope it helps,
Pavlos