Bug#546975: marked as done (xorg: doesn't detect radeon driver)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #546975,
regarding xorg: doesn't detect radeon driver
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: xorg
Version: 1:7.4+4
Severity: important
After a recent upgrade the X server did no longer start up and the
system would fall back to text mode.
Here is the error message from X.org.log:
==============================
(==) Matched ati for the autoconfigured driver
(==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
(II) LoadModule: "ati"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module ati
(II) UnloadModule: "ati"
(EE) Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.
==============================
The original /etc/X11/xorg.conf was the automatically generated one
without any specifics in it. I added
==============================
Driver "radeon"
==============================
to the Device section.
After that the X server is working again.
Here is the output from lspci:
==============================
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)
==============================
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xorg depends on:
ii konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:4.2.4-1 X terminal emulator for KDE 4
ii libgl1-mesa-dri 7.5.1-1 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.5.1-1 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglu1-mesa 7.5.1-1 The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii rxvt [x-terminal-emulator] 1:2.6.4-14 VT102 terminal emulator for the X
ii x11-apps 7.4+2 X applications
ii x11-session-utils 7.3+1 X session utilities
ii x11-utils 7.4+1 X11 utilities
ii x11-xfs-utils 7.4+1 X font server utilities
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.4+3 X11 XKB utilities
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.4+2 X server utilities
ii xauth 1:1.0.3-2 X authentication utility
ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-4 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-4 75 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-6 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-7 scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.4+2 X Window System font utility progr
ii xinit 1.1.1-1 X server initialisation tool
ii xkb-data 1.6-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii xorg-docs-core 1:1.4-5 Core documentation for the X.org X
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.4+4 the X.Org X server
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 247-1 X terminal emulator
xorg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages xorg suggests:
pn xorg-docs <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Heiko Gerlach wrote:
> Package: xorg
> Version: 1:7.4+4
> Severity: important
>
> After a recent upgrade the X server did no longer start up and the
> system would fall back to text mode.
>
> Here is the error message from X.org.log:
> ==============================
> (==) Matched ati for the autoconfigured driver
> (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
> (II) LoadModule: "ati"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module ati
> (II) UnloadModule: "ati"
> (EE) Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) No drivers available.
> ==============================
>
> The original /etc/X11/xorg.conf was the automatically generated one
> without any specifics in it. I added
> ==============================
> Driver "radeon"
> ==============================
> to the Device section.
>
> After that the X server is working again.
>
If you want the server to autodetect the hardware and load the right
driver, it will load the ati wrapper, not radeon directly. So you need
to install xserver-xorg-video-ati, not only xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
That's why xserver-xorg depends on xserver-xorg-video-all |
xserver-xorg-video-5: if you're not sure of what you're doing, just keep
xserver-xorg-video-all installed so that both ati and radeon stay
installed and the server autodetection/autoload works.
Brice
> Here is the output from lspci:
> ==============================
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
> 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)
> ==============================
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages xorg depends on:
> ii konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:4.2.4-1 X terminal emulator for KDE 4
> ii libgl1-mesa-dri 7.5.1-1 A free implementation of the OpenG
> ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.5.1-1 A free implementation of the OpenG
> ii libglu1-mesa 7.5.1-1 The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
> ii rxvt [x-terminal-emulator] 1:2.6.4-14 VT102 terminal emulator for the X
> ii x11-apps 7.4+2 X applications
> ii x11-session-utils 7.3+1 X session utilities
> ii x11-utils 7.4+1 X11 utilities
> ii x11-xfs-utils 7.4+1 X font server utilities
> ii x11-xkb-utils 7.4+3 X11 XKB utilities
> ii x11-xserver-utils 7.4+2 X server utilities
> ii xauth 1:1.0.3-2 X authentication utility
> ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-4 100 dpi fonts for X
> ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-4 75 dpi fonts for X
> ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-6 standard fonts for X
> ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-7 scalable fonts for X
> ii xfonts-utils 1:7.4+2 X Window System font utility progr
> ii xinit 1.1.1-1 X server initialisation tool
> ii xkb-data 1.6-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
> ii xorg-docs-core 1:1.4-5 Core documentation for the X.org X
> ii xserver-xorg 1:7.4+4 the X.Org X server
> ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 247-1 X terminal emulator
>
> xorg recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages xorg suggests:
> pn xorg-docs <none> (no description available)
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
>
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