Hi folks, wondering if anyone can help me. I have just got a Dell CPx laptop and have tried to get 8.2 setup on it (worked fine on an older laptop), but I can't get X working. The machine has an ATI M1 card in it, but the default installation wouldn't make it work at anything over 800x600 and as a VESA monitor. I've scoured the net and not come up with anything of much help. I've booted inetd 3 and tried running SaX2, but that just gives me a blank screen until I kill it. HELP please, this is very frustrating. Thanks in advance. Peter Nunn. CAUTION - This message may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error please notify AMCOR immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of AMCOR.
Further to this, the output from lspci -v gives me 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00aa Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] I/O ports at ec00 [size=256] Memory at fcfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0 Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1 and when I do a X -configure and test the configuration I get two lines saying (WW) ATI(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xfd0000000, 0x8000000) Does that help any? Peter -----Original Message----- From: Peter Nunn [mailto:Peter.Nunn@Amcor.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, 28 May 2003 11:01 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Setting up X on a Dell CPx Laptop Hi folks, wondering if anyone can help me. I have just got a Dell CPx laptop and have tried to get 8.2 setup on it (worked fine on an older laptop), but I can't get X working. The machine has an ATI M1 card in it, but the default installation wouldn't make it work at anything over 800x600 and as a VESA monitor. I've scoured the net and not come up with anything of much help. I've booted inetd 3 and tried running SaX2, but that just gives me a blank screen until I kill it. HELP please, this is very frustrating. Thanks in advance. Peter Nunn. CAUTION - This message may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error please notify AMCOR immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of AMCOR. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
OK, this is officially now driving me nuts.. I simply can't get SuSE to run X on this box. It has an ATI Rage Mobility chip in it. Part of the output from lspci -v says Memory at fd00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] and the only failure I seem to get from startx is WW (ATI) Failed to set up write-combining range (0xfd00000,0x800000) I don't know if this is related or not. X runs fine on a Knoppix boot and I copied the XF86Config and XF86Config-4 from that system onto the Suse one with the same result. I then copied the ati_drv.o and atimisc.o from the Knoppix system to the SuSE one and still no go. I'm just about to give up on this. Can anyone help please. Thanks. Peter Nunn.
Well, looks like its by-by SuSE (atleast for my laptop). Mandrake 9.1 went on perfectly and is up and running. Real pain really because I wanted to finally become single distro on the various machines. Oh well. Peter Nunn. -----Original Message----- From: Peter Nunn [mailto:pnunn@pncomputing.biz] Sent: Wednesday, 28 May 2003 9:44 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] Setting up X on a Dell CPx Laptop Further to this, the output from lspci -v gives me 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00aa Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] I/O ports at ec00 [size=256] Memory at fcfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0 Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1 and when I do a X -configure and test the configuration I get two lines saying (WW) ATI(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xfd0000000, 0x8000000) Does that help any? Peter -----Original Message----- From: Peter Nunn [mailto:Peter.Nunn@Amcor.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, 28 May 2003 11:01 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Setting up X on a Dell CPx Laptop Hi folks, wondering if anyone can help me. I have just got a Dell CPx laptop and have tried to get 8.2 setup on it (worked fine on an older laptop), but I can't get X working. The machine has an ATI M1 card in it, but the default installation wouldn't make it work at anything over 800x600 and as a VESA monitor. I've scoured the net and not come up with anything of much help. I've booted inetd 3 and tried running SaX2, but that just gives me a blank screen until I kill it. HELP please, this is very frustrating. Thanks in advance. Peter Nunn. CAUTION - This message may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error please notify AMCOR immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of AMCOR. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Friday May 30 2003 12:54 am, Peter Nunn wrote:
Well,
looks like its by-by SuSE (atleast for my laptop). Mandrake 9.1 went on perfectly and is up and running.
Real pain really because I wanted to finally become single distro on the various machines. Oh well.
RH is working with Dell, where SuSE has no relationship with them, and RH can make sure all the drivers are available. Fred -- Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Pro & KMail 1.5.1 Never forget: At Microsoft, the engineering department are the Ferengi... The marketing and legal departments are the Borg!
On Thursday 29 May 2003 21:02, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Friday May 30 2003 12:54 am, Peter Nunn wrote:
Well,
looks like its by-by SuSE (atleast for my laptop). Mandrake 9.1 went on perfectly and is up and running.
Real pain really because I wanted to finally become single distro on the various machines. Oh well.
RH is working with Dell, where SuSE has no relationship with them, and RH can make sure all the drivers are available.
Telling. That statement alone tells just how non-standard and proprietary Dell machines have become. Good reason to steer clear of Dell. Everything on my Sony GRX series works perfectly since Suse 8.1 -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
I didn't have any problem with 8.1 on an earlier Dell (CPi machine), just with this "newer" one. Peter. -----Original Message----- From: John Andersen [mailto:jsa@pen.homeip.net] Sent: Friday, 30 May 2003 3:14 PM To: fmiller@lightlink.com; suse-linux-e Subject: Re: [SLE] Setting up X on a Dell CPx Laptop On Thursday 29 May 2003 21:02, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Friday May 30 2003 12:54 am, Peter Nunn wrote:
Well,
looks like its by-by SuSE (atleast for my laptop). Mandrake 9.1 went on perfectly and is up and running.
Real pain really because I wanted to finally become single distro on the various machines. Oh well.
RH is working with Dell, where SuSE has no relationship with them, and RH can make sure all the drivers are available.
Telling. That statement alone tells just how non-standard and proprietary Dell machines have become. Good reason to steer clear of Dell. Everything on my Sony GRX series works perfectly since Suse 8.1 -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Friday May 30 2003 1:13 am, you wrote:
On Thursday 29 May 2003 21:02, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Friday May 30 2003 12:54 am, Peter Nunn wrote:
Well,
looks like its by-by SuSE (atleast for my laptop). Mandrake 9.1 went on perfectly and is up and running.
Real pain really because I wanted to finally become single distro on the various machines. Oh well.
RH is working with Dell, where SuSE has no relationship with them, and RH can make sure all the drivers are available.
Telling. That statement alone tells just how non-standard and proprietary Dell machines have become. Good reason to steer clear of Dell.
Everything on my Sony GRX series works perfectly since Suse 8.1
MANY Dells are fine.....Desktops and servers. Laptops can/are be a problem. Fred -- Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Pro & KMail 1.5.1 Never forget: At Microsoft, the engineering department are the Ferengi... The marketing and legal departments are the Borg!
On Friday 30 May 2003 08:59, Fred A. Miller wrote:
RH is working with Dell, where SuSE has no relationship with them, and RH can make sure all the drivers are available.
Telling. That statement alone tells just how non-standard and proprietary Dell machines have become. Good reason to steer clear of Dell.
Everything on my Sony GRX series works perfectly since Suse 8.1
MANY Dells are fine.....Desktops and servers. Laptops can/are be a problem.
Agreed, their rack mount servers are top notch, and lots of laptops from lots of companies are problematic in linux. I have an old no-name laptop with a Yamaha soundcard that nobody supports. But one would think that if the drivers are written for linux, and you can get source, then any linux would do. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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