- wrote: >OK - Ive been struggling wiht gettin X to work on my new Dell Inspiron >4100 since January. It has the infamous ATI Radeon card. > >I read through linux on laptops, copied over different xconfig files >and still nothing. > >Upgraded kernels, X, whatever it took or thought to try. > > >Any ideas? > I'm not sure if I've already replyed, however: - I have an Asus L8470K, with -- imagine :) -- an ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY, and I'm running my X server for at least 8 hours a day. So it works. It doesn't work (for me) agp && accel support.
Now, this is what I know I/you need to let X work : - I previously installed (december '01) XFree 4.1.99 from cvs; this was the first (or the very first) release to fully support this card. Now you can dwnl binary .tar.gz directly from XFree.org to get X4.2; install them -- with an easy script provided by XFree -- and try xf86cfg or xf86config or hit XFree86 -configure. Notes: - you need XFree 4.1.9x + for your graphic card - maybe you have to manually tuning the config file XF86Config-4 you obtain with one of the above commands - xf86cfg is specifically designed for XF4, but it's not perfect (hey, it's only stupid software, isn't it? :)) - XF4.2 deb pkg are not -- as far as I know -- available To see if your X4 set up is able to manage your graphic card, use the following (as a rule of thumb) : - as root run 'scanpci' and look for any entry about ATI device. If it's reported exactly the string you are expecting (in my case: "ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY") then your X server should run fine: just add the Driver "ati" and the videoram lines. If anything with "unknown" or different from the above expected appear, you need to upgrade the X pkgs. (Scanpci is a binary of X; lspci is part of the kernel and doesn't know all about graphic cards.) Hope this help. Bye, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marco Mililotti | Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only mililmar at lucy.dii.unisi.it | be achieved by understanding. web: http://www.yawbs.org/ | -- Albert Einstein ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
