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napoleon

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Registered: 2005-04-03

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RADEON: No matching Device Section

Well the Xorg 7 problems continue. With a fresh arch install, i installed xorg-server and then kde, and also xf86-video-ati, xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse. Now when i type "startx" i get the error message

(WW): RADEON: No matching Device Section for instance (BUS ID PCI: 1:0:1) found

Below is my xorg.conf (Sorry I will delete its later)

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Thnx

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Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: RADEON: No matching Device Section

Does X not start for you or something?  That's a warning message, I get it all the time with my ATI drivers and it causes no harm.

napoleon

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Re: RADEON: No matching Device Section

No X doesn't start  :?

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Cerebral

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Re: RADEON: No matching Device Section

could you give us the entire output that appears when you run startx instead of just the warning?

napoleon

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Re: RADEON: No matching Device Section

Please find the log file below

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Cerebral

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Re: RADEON: No matching Device Section

Based on this in your log:

(II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 50  V max: 75 Hz, H min: 30  H max: 82 kHz, PixClock max 140 MHz 
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(WW) RADEON(0): config file vrefresh range 50-90Hz not within DDC vrefresh ranges. 

Try setting

VertRefresh 50-75

in the monitor section of your xorg.conf, maybe?

napoleon

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Registered: 2005-04-03

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Re: RADEON: No matching Device Section

The change in Vertref rate didn't help. U switched back to the old xorg and startx worked theb i upgraded to xorg-server generated new config nd the error came back.   :evil:

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T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

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Re: RADEON: No matching Device Section

Section "Device"
    Identifier   "Standard VGA"
    VendorName   "Unknown"
    BoardName   "Unknown"

# The chipset line is optional in most cases.  It can be used to override
# the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.

#    Chipset   "generic"

# The Driver line must be present.  When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module.  Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.

    Driver     "vga"
# The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
# this section is intended for.  When this line isn't present, a device
# section can only match up with the primary video device.  For PCI
# devices a line like the following could be used.  This line should not
# normally be included unless there is more than one video device
# intalled.

#    BusID      "PCI:0:10:0"

#    VideoRam   256

#    Clocks   25.2 28.3

EndSection 

try commenting this section out. You already have radeon defined below it.

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

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Re: RADEON: No matching Device Section

Try running Xorg -configure, edit the resolutions and mouse settings in /root/xorg.conf.new and put the file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

The warning thingy is because it detects your 2nd head as a different device. Xorg7 can access these cards in two ways: either via the driver with xinerama emulation and mergedFB, or via Xorg assigning two displays to your serverlayout, one from PCI ID for head #1, one from PCI ID  for head #2. Ignoring the 2nd head isn't a problem, as the radeon driver sets it up anyways as soon as you connect a screen to it and restart xorg.

lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

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Re: RADEON: No matching Device Section

Try running Xorg -configure, edit the resolutions and mouse settings in /root/xorg.conf.new and put the file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

The warning thingy is because it detects your 2nd head as a different device. Xorg7 can access these cards in two ways: either via the driver with xinerama emulation and mergedFB, or via Xorg assigning two displays to your serverlayout, one from PCI ID for head #1, one from PCI ID  for head #2. Ignoring the 2nd head isn't a problem, as the radeon driver sets it up anyways as soon as you connect a screen to it and restart xorg.

What I did: run xorgconfigure and hwd -x and than  from both I made a new one xorg.conf.

napoleon

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Registered: 2005-04-03

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Re: RADEON: No matching Device Section

Well i messed my system up so much with all the install and deletion of stuff that i decided to take advantage of the new release arch. From there every thing worked fine so i noe use the new xorg. I never had any of the problens i had before.

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