Radeon 3450 X configuration

[Drew Bloechl]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 06:02:29PM -0700, Drew Bloechl wrote:
> Backstory: I installed Hardy on a machine I just upgraded.  At that
> point, everything was working (presumably with the "vesa" driver).  I
> upgraded all the packages, and the machine wanted to be rebooted.  It
> also offered to install ATI's proprietary fglrx driver, so I figured I'd
> kill two birds with one reboot.
> 
> Except the fglrx driver hard locks the machine when X starts.  I
> rebooted to the rescue mode and uninstalled it with the aim of replacing
> it with the radeonhd driver, but X is being a jerk about it.
> 
> I've removed every driver except radeonhd to attempt to force its hand.
> "X -configure" spits out "No devices to configure.  Configuration
> failed."  In X's log, it looks like it correctly picks out the correct
> PCI device, but then it says "No devices detected."  Huh?

Solved!  Support for RV620 wasn't added until radeonhd 1.2, and Hardy
ships with 1.1.  I upgraded to 1.2 from Debian's unstable repository (as
well as xserver-xorg-core just in case) and everything works great.
Still no XVideo support, but I guess that's still in development.

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Drew Bloechl
drew at cesspool.net