-----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
--
You will be advanced socially, without any special effort on your
part.
Yeah. I've been digging into it and discovered (via strace) that Xorg
is terminating its brute force pci scan of /proc/bus/pci/... a bit
before encountering my video device, which is the last device in the pci
space. scanpci and lspci show my video, but "Xorg -scanpci" doesn't
show the device.
I've submitted is as Bugzilla bug 214050 at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214050
Regards
-- Charlie