ATI RADEON Xpress 200 mobo/video card problems

[Jimmie Houchin]

Scott wrote:
> I gather this is a relatively new motherboard.
> 
> I'm on a friends PC (while mine awaits a replacement for my
> less-than-1-year-old nVidia G-Force 6800 GT card that just simply died).
>  I tried running my Ubuntu Breezy live CD and first it wouldn't setup
> with the default, so I tried again with live-expert.
> 
> I got it to setup but when it attempted to start up, X crashed.  I'm
> pretty sure it's related to the chipset (video is integrated into the
> motherboard).
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 

I have a laptop with that chip. In order for X to not crash on startup I
had to edit my xorg.conf file. Here is my edit.

I had to edit the "Device" section and add the Option "NoAccel"

Section "Device"
	Identifier   "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Xpress 200M (RS480)"
	Driver       "ati"
	BusID        "PCI:1:5:0"
	Option       "NoAccel"
EndSection

It worked fine after that.

I haven't spent anytime after that to look at any of the newer drivers
to see if any solved my problems.

Maybe this will help you get going.

Jimmie