XFree Won't Run with ATI Radeon 7000

[Steve Haines]

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 19:29 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 28.12.2004, 15:11 -0300 schrieb Steve Haines:
> > I just installed a new ATI Radeon 7000 video card. XFree won't start. I edited 
> > the config file to not load the dri module, then ran
> you lost the capability to use dpkg-reconfigure, it wont write any
> changes to the config file anymore, there is a md5 algorithm to track
> manual changes.
> >  'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Still no joy. I must have answered one of the questions 
> > wrong.
> nope, see above, no changes are written....either copy back the backup
> you made before editing it manually, or try to create a new one with
> sudo xf86cfg (regard that you need to change the location of the file to
> save on exit to store it in /tmp or your home dir) now copy the newly
> created file to /etc/X11.
> 
> your xserver should work as detected by xf86cfg.

Thanks Oliver. I saw your note to someone else about the dangers of
manually editing the file, but after I had already done it! I deleted
XF86Config-4 and used 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' to re-write it.
After a re-boot, it ran! I'm back with the new card. Thanks.