Walter Dnes schreef:
> My video card apparently has 2 chips, according to "lspci -v"...
Yes, they all do; so does mine:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R350 AH [Radeon
9800] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4f72
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 255,
IRQ 11
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at e0000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon
9800] (Secondary)
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4f73
Flags: stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128M]
Memory at e1010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
The cards have two chips because they have two display outputs (you can
connect two monitors).
> And here's what the Xorg log has to say...
>
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 05:00:0 (--) Assigning device section
> with no busID to primary device (WW) RADEON: No matching Device
> section for instance (BusID PCI:5:0:1) found (--) Chipset ATI Radeon
> X300 (RV370) 5B60 (PCIE) found
>
Yes, that's -- almost--normal too:
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.22.5
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: LGDr8.22g1
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Feb 7 2006 19:33:15
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Information:
autobuild-rel-r6-8.22.1-driver-lnx-244115
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(--) Chipset RADEON 9800 SE (R350 4148) found
> Which chip on teh card should it be using, and what are the best
> modules I can load?
The chip will be found automatically when you load the appropriate
drivers, depending on how many monitors you have connected.
I, for example have only 1 CRT connected; the secondary output always
gives an error saying that it's "not found", because there's no monitor
connected to it (so the identification signal sent along that channel
goes into oblivion).
For an X300, depending on what you want, you can use the Xorg-7.0
"radeon" driver if you only want/need 2D; if you want/need 3D/OpenGL, or
are using Xorg-6.8, you should probably "emerge ati-drivers" for the
proprietary fglrx drivers. They "suck", but they're way better than
nothing at all.
Hope this helps,
Holly
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