On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Rafał Miłecki
2009/1/4 Rob Walsh
: I recently bought a (relatively inexpensive) ASUS ATI card, and it appears to lack support in the radeonhd driver. (I have been able to use the binary drivers from ATI, but poor 2D acceleration is driving me nuts.)
I'm running Ubuntu 'intrepid' / 8.10, and trying the radeonhd driver version 1.2.1-2build2 that they provide. While that version is indicated to support RV620 / Radeon HD 3450, the PCI ID of this card is not in the supported list (/usr/share/xserver-xorg/pci/radeonhd.ids) -- the IDs immediately sequentially before and after this one are there, and manually adding the ID doesn't work (though that was a long shot).
Is there some known issue with this card, or is there something I can do to enable a workaround? (I have searched google (generally), the mailing list archives, and bugzilla to no avail.)
But what's wrong with that card? X doesn't start? Black screen? Screen corruption?
I'm sorry, I should have been clearer about that. X does not start -- the final lines (just after loading radeonhd_drv.so) are: ---- (II) RADEONHD: version 1.2.1, built from dist of git branch master, commit 761940fd (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01@00:00:0 (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found ----
Update your radeonhd to at least 1.2.4 version, then try again. If something fails with 1.2.4, come back, describe problem and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
I will work on that, but it has been quite a while since I've tried to compile X from source. And it concerns me that version 1.2.4 is still (after a fairly long time) in Debian "experimental" rather than "unstable" or "testing". This is my primary workstation and I can't really afford to be doing driver debugging on it. I had hoped that there was something simple to make this card work with 1.2.1. (I will try a dual-boot.) Thanks, Rob.