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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)
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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)
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Try this to generate an xorg.conf and move it to /etc/X11
# X -configure
# mv ~/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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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!
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