Bug#420054: xorg installs ati driver for radeon device
reassign 420054 xserver-xorg-video-ati
thank you
Mike Saavedra wrote:
> I just installed etch/stable and everything went fine except when the
> system started up for the first time I got the following error:
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> I have a Radeon X300 SE 128MB HyperMemory video card.
>
> I eventually found and fixed the problem. I'm not sure how the
> original /etc/X11/xorg.conf file is generated, but in the Section
> "Device" for the Radeon X300, the Driver is listed as "ati". I changed
> that to "radeon" and all is well.
>
> I suggest that the default driver name be "radeon" instead of "ati"
> for this and any other affected video cards. This will save some other
> innocent user the frustration I had to go through.
ati actually contains the radeon submodule. So if radeon works, ati
should too. You're saying it does not? If so, please send the Xorg.0.log
right after the failure to start with the above error message, your
xorg.conf, and the Xorg.0.log when it works after changing ati into radeon.
Brice
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