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k3rn31

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Registered: 2008-01-09

Posts: 145

compaq presario 2500 problem with video card

hi I am new to Arch Linux. I have installed Arch succesfully in a compaq presario 2500. I have 2 problems for now:

1) The boot is very slow cause arch finds a problem to the ata2 (Its a cdrom that I dont use). Is there a way to disable that device? and to quick the boot? It takes over 5 minutes to boot!!!!

The message is: ata2: soft resetting port
ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (status 0xd0)

2) I installed Gnome and I can't login to the graphical environment cause maybe I have problems with the graphic card drivers. I have the ATI Radeon IGP 345M.

I have installed the opensource driver:
I tried these settings:

Section "Module"
  Load  "glx"
  Load  "dri"
  Load  "drm"
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier "name"                     # your alias
 Driver "radeon"
 Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true" #needed for aiglx
EndSection

Section "DRI"
 Group        "video"
 Mode         0660
EndSectioν

But I got black screen and the monitor is switching off

Last edited by k3rn31 (2008-01-09 22:28:04)

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Pons

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Registered: 2007-10-03

Posts: 8

Re: compaq presario 2500 problem with video card

I have a Sony Vaio Laptop, with the exact same problems as you...
Do you have an ali chipset? paste your lspci response.

And for the IGP345m, the only thing i've found is to compile an older driver. I just reinstalled so i'm gonna check that out, and post it here

Pons

Pons

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Registered: 2007-10-03

Posts: 8

Re: compaq presario 2500 problem with video card

For using Xorg on an Ati IGP345m, you have to compile the old driver (6.7.195) using makepkg.

Here is the PKGBUILD with all you need to compile it, then install the package with pacman -Uf, and that's it.

http://t.p0ns.org/xf86-video-ati-6.7.195.tar.gz

If you need help configuring Direct Rendering, just let me know

Regards,
Pons

Pons

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Registered: 2007-10-03

Posts: 8

Re: compaq presario 2500 problem with video card

by the way, my solution to the ata2 problem (on pata_ali), is here:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=42229

k3rn31

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Registered: 2008-01-09

Posts: 145

Re: compaq presario 2500 problem with video card

Thank you. I will test it

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olleg

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Registered: 2008-01-20

Posts: 6

Re: compaq presario 2500 problem with video card

Thanks, Pons. Works great for me!
It was the only thing confusing me with my compaq nx9010.