[KLUG Members] org 7, video card help

greenproc greenproc at charter.net
Sun Jun 11 19:49:28 EDT 2006


Chester Wisniewski wrote:
> 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
I think fglrx is radeon8500 and higher ?

>
>
> 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,
I too tried dapper, but it was a clean install.  Ran into the same wacom
errors that I saw in your post.

1. Delete the wacom stuff (unless you have one :) 
2. Comment out:     Option "UseFBDev" "true"

Let us know what happens :=)
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
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