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NeoEx

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 15

ati module not found

hi. a friend of mine has changed pc and now he has an ati x1300 pro. i suggested him to use the open source driver to use aiglx, but, if we change in xorg.conf the driver from vesa to ati (or radeon), xorg doesn't start and it says that the ati module does not exist.
before starting xorg i loaded the radeon module (with no errors).
what can i do?
thanks

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luca

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From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: ati module not found

Hi NeoEx,
I'm not sure but I think that this video card is not supported by open source driver.
Try installing the fglrx drivers:

pacman -S fglrx

metalmike

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-04-26

Posts: 2

Re: ati module not found

Hi, did you install the xf86-video-ati package?

Mike

NeoEx

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 15

Re: ati module not found

yeah, reading the wiki i figured out that the problem was that package. thanks anyway
unfortunately now the x server doesn't start and it says: no device found.
but i'm almost sure another friend of mine owned an x1300 and made it work with the open source driver (on debian). ok, that wasn't x1300 pro, but...
any idea?

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luca

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From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: ati module not found

Post the content of

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: ati module not found

From http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon :

"Note that R500 series chips (X1300, X1800 etc) do not have a Radeon 2D core, so are only supported by the vesa driver (no acceleration)."

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NeoEx

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 15

Re: ati module not found

damn... it seems that i remember incorrectly.
his lspci output is:
[...]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7183
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 71a3
[...]
it doesn't recognize the graphic board, right? how is that possible?
there are nothing we can do for fixing that?
thanks again.

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byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: ati module not found

Apart from switching to fglrx, no.

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NeoEx

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 15

Re: ati module not found

ehm, i forgot to say that we tried with fglrx, but, when we restart xorg, the monitor shuts down, and we can't switch to the terminal too. we had to revert to vesa via the arch cd.
but i can't understand why it doesn't recognize properly the vga. x1300 works with linux, so why it behave like this?
here is the full output of lspci, if it can help:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HH (ICH8DH) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801HR/HO/HH (ICH8R/DO/DH) SATA RAID Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7183
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 71a3
02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG Unknown device 0720

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