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martinsz

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Registered: 2009-07-24

Posts: 6

Xorg does not recognize Mobility Radeon HD 3300

Hi all,

I'm new to Arch and trying to make it run on a new Dell laptop. I get the following error message after trying to start Xorg with xinit:

(EE) No devices detected.

Xorg.0.log contains the same error, and no other errors. I tried it with both the xf86-video-vesa, xf86-video-ati, xf86-video-radeonhd, and the latest git for radeonhd from AUR.
With the vesa driver and radeonhd, I get the error as above, with the ati driver, I get

(EE) No drivers available.

glxinfo returns just "Error: unable to open display".

It seems like this might be the same bug as
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/285517
and I read from the comments that the Ubuntu people managed to solve it, somehow, so I wonder if there's a solution to this in the Arch world.

Any help would be appreciated!

Last edited by martinsz (2009-07-24 04:45:15)

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: Xorg does not recognize Mobility Radeon HD 3300

Make sure that you are using at least Kernel 2.6.30, and that the radeon module is already loaded.

Last edited by Wintervenom (2009-07-24 06:02:00)

RichSelian

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From: China

Registered: 2009-03-14

Posts: 43

Re: Xorg does not recognize Mobility Radeon HD 3300

Try this to generate an xorg.conf and move it to /etc/X11

# X -configure
# mv ~/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

martinsz

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Registered: 2009-07-24

Posts: 6

Re: Xorg does not recognize Mobility Radeon HD 3300

Hi guys,

thanks for the replies. What did it for me seems to be that I followed the instructions to put { PCI_CHIP_RS780_9614, "ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics" } into ./src/radeon_chipset_gen.h from the bug report above and then re-compiled and installed xf86-video-ati. Afterwards it worked.

Thaks for the help!