Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules "ati" and "typ1" when starting X. No drivers available
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:06:48 -0800 (PST)
S D <sundimi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Pavlos Parissis <p_pavlos@freemail.gr> wrote:
>
> > You don't need root access in order to run that
> > command.
>
> True, but if I run it as a regular user, it gets even funnier:
>
> $ which xvidtune
> /usr/bin/xvidtune
> $ `which xvidtune`
> Please install the program before using
> $ /usr/bin/xvidtune
> Please install the program before using
>
> It appears some people also had this issue but no solution was provided:
>
> xvidtune always appeared accessible and judging from the below 'c' code the
> message is internally generated.
> http://www.x.org/pub/unsupported/pro...une/xvidtune.c if (!AppRes.ad_installed)
> {fprintf(stderr, "Please install the program before using\n"); return 3;} Maybe an
> understanding of how the boolean ad_installed is set would clarify matters.
>
> Thanks
>
>
[pparissis@spartacos][~]$
id -a
uid=1000(pparissis) gid=1000(pparissis) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),34(backup),40(src),44(video),46(plugdev),1000(pparissis)
[pparissis@spartacos][~]$
which xvidtune
/usr/bin/xvidtune
[pparissis@spartacos][~]$
dpkg -S /usr/bin/xvidtune
x11-xserver-utils: /usr/bin/xvidtune
[pparissis@spartacos][~]$
aptitude show x11-xserver-utils|grep Version
Version: 7.3+5
[pparissis@spartacos][~]$
xvidtune
Vendor: (null), Model: (null)
Num hsync: 1, Num vsync: 1
hsync range 0: 28.00 - 80.00
vsync range 0: 48.00 - 75.00
"1280x1024" 135.00 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
[pparissis@spartacos][~]$
cat /etc/debian_version
5.0
BTW, have you seen this ?
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#vga-output-bug
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