RE: FC6 - X server can't start - embedded ATI Rage XL AGP - DellPowerEdge 700
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Cornette [mailto:fc-cornette@insight.rr.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 8:46 PM
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: FC6 - X server can't start - embedded ATI Rage XL AGP -
DellPowerEdge 700
Charles Butterfield wrote:
> After converting from FC5 to FC6 (clean install, NOT an upgrade), I
can
> no longer get my X server to start.
>
> Target System:
> - Machine: Dell PowerEdge 700
> - Integrated Video: ATI Rage XL AGP
>
>
> Snippets from key files:
> /etc/sysconfig/hwconf -- includes the following:
> class: VIDEO
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> desc: "ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL"
> video.xdriver: ati
> vendorId: 1002
> deviceId: 4752
> subVendorId: 1028
> subDeviceId: 0167
> pciType: 1
> pcidom: 0
> pcibus: 3
> pcidev: e
> pcifn:
>
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf - includes the following:
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "ati"
> EndSection
>
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- end with:
> (II) Primary Device is: ISA
> (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Videocard0".
> (EE) No devices detected
>
> Any advice about what to do next would be appreciated.
> - Charlie Butterfield
>
This sounds like a bug to me since it is a pci device in hwconfig and
if
I am reading the snippets correctly, it is detected or the
information
is wrong in one or the other.
Jim
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