[KLUG Members] org 7, video card help

[Chester Wisniewski]

Have you tried the radeon driver instead of the ati ? Also I have had 
better luck with the proprietary ATI drivers (fglrx) especially if you 
are doing dual-head.

cw


zdennis wrote:
> I posted this to the GRLUG list, so am I going to crosspost this to the
> KLUG to. Hopefully someone has seen this type of error and can help me
> out. Thanks,
>
> Zach
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [GRLUG] Xorg 7, video card help
>
>
> I updated from Ubuntu Breezy to Ubuntu Dapper yesterday on my home box.
> I've got two video cards, a 32Mb SiS card and a 64Mb ATI Radeon 7200.
>
> The SiS card is on BusID PCI:2:6:0
> The ATI card is on my AGP slot, PCI:1:0:0
> I run extended desktop with Xinerama
>
> When running Ubuntu Breezy the stock sis and ati drivers worked great.
> After upgrading to Dapper which gave me new stock drivers and Xorg 7 the
> ATI card doesn't work. I cannot get it to work with 'ati' or 'vesa' drivers.
>
> When I run startx with 'ati' the monitor is just black. When I run
> startx with 'vesa' I get 'AddScreen/InitScreen failed at driver 0'.
>
> I have reduced my configuration to try to run off from the ATI card only.
>
> Below is my stripped down singlehead configuration and the outputs of
> lspci. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Zach
>
>
>