X Server error

[Christo Barnard]

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 12:36 +0000, Paul wrote:

[...]
> The card is a ATi Radeon Xpress 200M  with 128 MB UMA (whatever that means). :)
[...]

Paul,

You need the "fglrx" driver but you will find that xorg.conf is
configured with the "ati" driver.

>From the fglrx driver description:

Video driver for the ATI Radeon and FireGL graphics accelerators.

This version of the ATI driver officially supports:
 * ATI Radeon 8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, 9250 (R2xx)
 * ATI Radeon 9500, 9550, 9600, 9700, 9800, X300, X400, X600 (R3xx)
 * ATI Radeon X700, X800 (R4xx)
 * ATI Mobility 9000, 9600, 9800
 * ATI FireGL 8700, 8800, E1, E2, X1, X2, X3, Z1, T2, 5100, 7100, 7200
 * ATI Mobility FireGL 9000, T2, T2e


This is what I have done on my HP NX6125 notebook -

Go to terminal 2 (CTRL-ALT-F2). Log in and do:

cd /etc/X11/
sudo nano xorg.conf

Scroll down to the driver section and replace the string "ati" with
"vesa".
Save the file (CTRL-O), and exit (CTRL-X).

sudo shutdown -r now or I guess gdm restart will also work.

Now you need to get on the net and use apt-get or synaptic to install
the following packages:

xorg-driver-fglrx, fglrx-control (optional) and linux-restricted-modules
for the kernel you are running.

(You might need to enable the universe and/or multiverse repositories,
can't remember.)

Edit xorg.conf again and replace the string "vesa" with "fglrx".

Log out and enter CTRL-ALT-Backspace to restart the X-server.

Hope this helps. 


Regards,

Christo


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