radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat May 29 16:02:27 UTC 2010
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:45 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
> > I'm on my third video card.
> > The first was a radeon.
> > After I zapped that one, I had it replaced with
> > an nvidia card because it had AGP and I could find it.
> > Having cooked or otherwise damaged that one,
> > I replaced it with a VisionTek Radeon HD 3650.
> > It was the AGP card I could find.
> > Knoppix 5.1.0 runs just fine.
>
> I tried Xorg -probe
> X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
> just produced a messy screen. No discernable image.
> Here is /root/xorg.conf.new :
> > Section "ServerLayout"
> > Identifier "X.org Configured"
> > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Files"
> > ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
> > FontPath "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
> > FontPath "built-ins"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Module"
> > Load "dbe"
> > Load "glx"
> > Load "dri2"
> > Load "record"
> > Load "dri"
> > Load "extmod"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Keyboard0"
> > Driver "kbd"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Mouse0"
> > Driver "mouse"
> > Option "Protocol" "auto"
> > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> > #DisplaySize 340 270 # mm
> > Identifier "Monitor0"
> > VendorName "AOC"
> > ModelName "LM720/LM720A"
> > HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
> > VertRefresh 55.0 - 75.0
> > Option "DPMS"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Device"
> > ### Available Driver options are:-
> > ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
> > ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
> > ### [arg]: arg optional
> > #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "BusType" # [<str>]
> > #Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "CPusecTimeout" # <i>
> > #Option "AGPMode" # <i>
> > #Option "AGPFastWrite" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "AGPSize" # <i>
> > #Option "GARTSize" # <i>
> > #Option "RingSize" # <i>
> > #Option "BufferSize" # <i>
> > #Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "DMAForXv" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "FBTexPercent" # <i>
> > #Option "DepthBits" # <i>
> > #Option "PCIAPERSize" # <i>
> > #Option "AccelDFS" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "DisplayPriority" # [<str>]
> > #Option "PanelSize" # [<str>]
> > #Option "ForceMinDotClock" # <freq>
> > #Option "ColorTiling" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "VideoKey" # <i>
> > #Option "RageTheatreCrystal" # <i>
> > #Option "RageTheatreTunerPort" # <i>
> > #Option "RageTheatreCompositePort" # <i>
> > #Option "RageTheatreSVideoPort" # <i>
> > #Option "TunerType" # <i>
> > #Option "RageTheatreMicrocPath" # <str>
> > #Option "RageTheatreMicrocType" # <str>
> > #Option "ScalerWidth" # <i>
> > #Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>]
> > #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "DynamicClocks" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "VGAAccess" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "ReverseDDC" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "LVDSProbePLL" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
> > #Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "ConnectorTable" # <str>
> > #Option "DefaultConnectorTable" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "DefaultTMDSPLL" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "TVDACLoadDetect" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "ForceTVOut" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "TVStandard" # <str>
> > #Option "IgnoreLidStatus" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "DefaultTVDACAdj" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "Int10" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "EXAVSync" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "ATOMTVOut" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "R4xxATOM" # [<bool>]
> > Identifier "Card0"
> > Driver "radeon"
> > VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
> > BoardName "Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series"
> > BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> > Identifier "Screen0"
> > Device "Card0"
> > Monitor "Monitor0"
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 1
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 4
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 8
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 15
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 16
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 24
> > EndSubSection
> > EndSection
>
> I hate it when things just don't work.
----
Not sure exactly where you are going with all of this but you should at
least start with the default which is no xorg.conf at all - so maybe as
root, you should just 'mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-saved'
and then reboot and see what happens because I would guess that the
knoppix org.conf you are trying to use is from a much earlier version of
xorg.
Craig
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