Xorg - radeon & X700 no go?

[Cam]

Patrick

> I installed rawhide from about 5 hours ago on an Acer Ferrari 4000 with
> an ATI X700 and 1680x1050 screen. X was configured with the vesa driver
> and 1400x1050 which looks a bit stretched in width. So I
> edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replaced vesa with radeon in the driver
> section. Did an init 3, modprobe radeon and init 5. The screen does not
> show anything (stays black) while X seems to load.
> In /var/log/Xorg.0.log I see a lot of these messages:
> drnOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card[0..254]

I'm not sure if it's helpful but have you tried commenting out dri in 
the xorg.conf?

I'm trying a Dell Inspiron 6000 (1920x1200, 128Mb radeon x300) and there 
was a hang at theater detect (or something), until I commented out dri. 
Can't wait to get it working properly.

-Cam

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camilo at mesias.co.uk                                                 <--