reassign 373763 xserver-xfree86 severity 373763 important thanks Hi John, On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 04:24:03PM -0500, gabriel wrote: > I have been working on this probem for about 6 weeks, being new to > Debian, but not to Linux (since kernel r0.9x or r 1.0) or to computation > (since 1958). lspci and strace on xserver-debug suggest some kind of > problem communicating with a driver for card IDs 3e50 and 3e70 > (ATI X600 graphics, or VGA). I have an strace log and lspci -vv output. > as well as Xlog, but I may need to send these by separate e-mail from > another machine. > I am not certain whether I hava a H/W problem on the M/B x16 slot. > a GeForce 5200 on a PCI slot works, but a GeForce 6200 on the 16x > slot does not. > I think my next step may be to buy a different, but not too costly M/B > of another make. > I should also try the latest ATI driver although ATI do not list the > X600 as supported. > I forgot to mention that the VGA part of the X600 does work, so I > should also tryconfiguring Xf86Config for VGA. Given the wide range of hardware that X must support, I'm afraid that failures with individual cards are not considered critical bugs, which means that Debian will not issue updates fixing these bugs for a stable release. Sarge is also the last release of Debian to include xfree86 as its X server, so any bugfixes for xorg in testing will not be directly applicable to your stable system. If you're looking for help getting the card to work, you could also try the debian-user mailing list; but if you determine that it is indeed a bug in the X server, your best bet will probably be to install xorg, either by installing etch or by using a backport. If you still have problems even with X.org 7, in that case the X maintainers may be able to help ensure a fix makes it in for etch. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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