RE: FC6 - X server can't start - embedded ATI Rage XL AGP - DellPowerEdge 700

[Charles Butterfield]

Yeah.  I've been digging into it and discovered (via strace) that Xorg
is terminating its brute force pci scan of /proc/bus/pci/... a bit
before encountering my video device, which is the last device in the pci
space.  scanpci and lspci show my video, but "Xorg -scanpci" doesn't
show the device.

I've submitted is as Bugzilla bug 214050 at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214050

Regards
-- Charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Cornette [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 8:46 PM
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: FC6 - X server can't start - embedded ATI Rage XL AGP -
DellPowerEdge 700

Charles Butterfield wrote:
> After converting from FC5 to FC6 (clean install, NOT an upgrade), I

can
> no longer get my X server to start.
>
> Target System:
> Machine: Dell PowerEdge 700
> Integrated Video: ATI Rage XL AGP
>
> Snippets from key files:
> /etc/sysconfig/hwconf -- includes the following:
>     class: VIDEO
>     bus: PCI
>     detached: 0
>     desc: "ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL"
>     video.xdriver: ati
>     vendorId: 1002
>     deviceId: 4752
>     subVendorId: 1028
>     subDeviceId: 0167
>     pciType: 1
>     pcidom:    0
>     pcibus:  3
>     pcidev:  e
>     pcifn:
>
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf - includes the following:
>     Section "Device"
>        Identifier  "Videocard0"
>        Driver      "ati"
>     EndSection
>
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- end with:
>     (II) Primary Device is: ISA
>     (II) ATI:  Candidate "Device" section "Videocard0".
>     (EE) No devices detected
>
> Any advice about what to do next would be appreciated.
> Charlie Butterfield

This sounds like a bug to me since it is a pci device in hwconfig and if

I am reading the snippets correctly, it is detected or the information 
is wrong in one or the other.

Jim

FC6 - X server can't start - embedded ATI Rage XL AGP - DellPowerEdge 700

[Jim Cornette]

Charles Butterfield wrote:
> Yeah.  I've been digging into it and discovered (via strace) that Xorg
> is terminating its brute force pci scan of /proc/bus/pci/... a bit
> before encountering my video device, which is the last device in the pci
> space.  scanpci and lspci show my video, but "Xorg -scanpci" doesn't
> show the device.
>
> I've submitted is as Bugzilla bug 214050 at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214050
>
> Regards
> -- Charlie

You provided a slew of information in the zip through bugzilla. 
Hopefully someone gets this degradation from one release to the later 
release resolved.
Newer is not always better,
Jim