Re: [Nolug] Debian and ATI Radeon 7000 AGP

On Tuesday 14 January 2003 2:56 pm, Craig Jackson wrote:

You're using the wrong driver ... use the radeon driver, not the frame
buffer.

For e.g., I have something like this:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Radeon 9000 Pro"
        Driver "radeon"
        Option "UseFBDev" "false"
EndSection

> I installed Debian Woody stable using the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel with a
> ATI Radeon 7000. X crashed with the following output
> ______________________________________________________________
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a
> (II) Module fbdevhw: vendoe="The XFree86 Project"
> compiled for 4.1.0.1,module version = 0.0.2
> (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6//lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a
> (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration
>
> Fatal server error
> no screens found
> _______________________________________________________________
>
> This from /var/log/messages...
>
> kernel: Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 32 to 1
> kernel: Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 64 to 2
> kernel: Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 96 to 3
> kernel: Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 128 to 4
> kernel: Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 160 to 5
> kernel: Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 192 to 6
> kernel: Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 224 to 7
> _______________________________________________________________
>
> Any ideas??
> Thanks,
> Craig Jackson

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Tim Kelley
tpk at 23rdward dot org
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