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 Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 11:55 pm Post subject: ati-r128 video card on laptop not working?[solved] |
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Dell Inspiron 8000: p3 : Linux 2.6.34-r1
ati-r128 rage mobility video card
I emerged world, revdep-rebuild , resolved problems.
** Then my video would not work. I use "startx"
I got some errors that indicated I needed to re-compile my kernel.
* I compiled the kernel so I could install the "ati-drivers"
Now here art my errors:
#startx
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Fatal server error:
no screen found
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xinit: No such file or directory(error 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errono 3 Server error.
#aticonfig
aticonfig: No supported adapters detected
# solution:
running vesa -- works ok
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Try reinstalling the ATI drivers and make sure its opengl is enabled with eselect opengl.
Also your vesa driver wasn't loaded because it needs to be rebuilt as well, you should probably do this for all of the X drivers just in case. |
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| BradN wrote: | Try reinstalling the ATI drivers and make sure its opengl is enabled with eselect opengl.
Also your vesa driver wasn't loaded because it needs to be rebuilt as well, you should probably do this for all of the X drivers just in case. |
to enable opengl do i : #eselect opengl set ati ?
Will this make a difference if I reinstall the ati-drivers
I did a emerge --search vesa and I saw the vesa 2.3.0 drivers are installed.
Thanks for the line!
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| BradN wrote: | Try reinstalling the ATI drivers and make sure its opengl is enabled with eselect opengl.
Also your vesa driver wasn't loaded because it needs to be rebuilt as well, you should probably do this for all of the X drivers just in case. |
What about ?
Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist,)
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(EE) module ABI major version (5) doesn't match the server's version (6)
^^ this means that the X server has changed its protocol for interfacing with drivers, so if you ever intend to use the vesa driver you'll have to recompile it to make it use the new interface.
#aticonfig
aticonfig: No supported adapters detected
This part is worrying, and unfortunately I haven't used any modern ATI cards so I don't know for sure what would cause that message. I suspect your card is too old for ATI's drivers.
But, if you recompile the xorg ati driver I bet it might work. |
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| BradN wrote: | (EE) module ABI major version (5) doesn't match the server's version (6)
^^ this means that the X server has changed its protocol for interfacing with drivers, so if you ever intend to use the vesa driver you'll have to recompile it to make it use the new interface.
#aticonfig
aticonfig: No supported adapters detected
This part is worrying, and unfortunately I haven't used any modern ATI cards so I don't know for sure what would cause that message. I suspect your card is too old for ATI's drivers.
But, if you recompile the xorg ati driver I bet it might work. |
I tried this: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml
and used r128 instead of radeon.
I removed the ati drivers I noticed they are for the newer chipsets.
I also recompiled my kernel and made the r128 a Module.
None of this worked. 
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* x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati
Latest version available: 6.13.0
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 991 kB
Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
Description: ATI video driver
License: MIT
I think this is the one you want, even if it's already installed, emerge it again. This driver works with a Mobility M1 so I'm guessing it may work with mobility M4. |
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