Ed:

I've completed your instructions. It's still close but no cigar. I checked /usr/X11R6/lib/modules and saw that there was an "r128" and a "radeon" module. I used a text editor to try both of those in the "Driver" section of the XF86Config file. Both times I came up with the same error output:

XF86Config: /etc/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(--) no ModulePath specified using default: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
dbe: Unknown error loading module

Config Error: /etc/XF86Config: 48

Subsection "extmod"
^^^^^^^^^

Module section keyword expected
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
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It sounds like I have to express somewhere in the XF86Config file that the right driver module is in that directory. I don't know how to do this, and I'm really just guessing from the very start. Any help you could give would be great. It seems like I'm almost there.

Mike Flug
michael.flug@snet.net

Ed Harrison wrote:

** Reply to message from mhf <michael.flug@snet.net> on Sat, 13 Jan 2001
22:33:03 -0500

Could not find Config file!
- Tried:
/root/XF86Config
/etc/XF86Config
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.linux
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config

Fatal Server Error:
No Config File Found!


On my system (with 4.0.2) it is at /etc/X11/XF86Config.

There is a symbolic link to it.

The old one is at /etc/XF86Config, and it is confusing X.  

FIRST copy it to a backup

cp /etc/XF86Config /etc/XF86Config.BAK

SECOND, remove the old one

rm /etc/XF86Config

THIRD, make the symbolic link to the new on 

ln -s /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/XF86Config

To configure your X server, neither sax nor sax2 nor any other nice stuff works.

As root use xf86config4.  It is not pretty; it's all text but it will work.

Main point in configuring your Radeon, is to write the file to
/etc/X11/XF86Config [default] AND THEN CHECK IT.

For a r128 chip Card to work there is only one entry that must be present.

In Section "Device", you should see Driver  "r128"; if you see Driver "ati", or
anything else, change it to "r128".  This driver takes advantage of its
capabilities.
When X starts up, it will probe "r128" and set all the other values.

Good Luck.