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Help: ATI 9700 video card in fedora and mandrake: problem

post #1 of 28
4/4/04 at 11:03pm
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I am having my 8790 with ATI9700 256Mb. I tried to install fedora core 1 and mandrake, but none of them can correctly config my video (or 17'LCD). During the installation, I don't know which screen or card I should choose at all. The 17' LCD should pick 1400x1050, generic LCD panel, or something else? I choose radeon generic or radeon 9600 or 9700 but none of them works.

Is this because the wrong configuration of LCD or video card? I am n00b of linux, thanks.
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post #2 of 28
4/5/04 at 10:01am
You need to install the ATI drivers for the card to work correctly with 3d- for the install just choose generic LCD and vesa driver. Afterwards get the ATI rpm and use fglrx to config
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post #3 of 28
4/5/04 at 1:32pm
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what linux distro are you using? I installed fedora core 1 and didn't see option for vesa. Now the X refused to start. In this case can I still install the ATI driver and get it started?
BTW, do you know what is the X configurator under fedora? Seems the Xconfigurator, xf86config are all gone.

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post #4 of 28
4/5/04 at 2:27pm
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Just updated ATI drivers from ati.com but it doesn't recgonize the 9700 on my 8790. How can I manually select a module and which module should I choose?
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post #5 of 28
4/5/04 at 2:27pm
Mandrake 10.0 , unfortunately I am not at all familiar with Fedora so I cant answer why there are not X configurators. Try chosing Radeon as the driver at install time.
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post #6 of 28
4/5/04 at 2:49pm
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I download and install the ATI driver but it doesn't recgonize the 9700 card, do you know how to manually configure this one, just edit the XF86Config-4?
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post #7 of 28
4/5/04 at 3:08pm
When you say it doesnt recognise the card - what exactly are you referring to? Did you run fglrxconfig if so then if there is no 9700 option you might try 9600. The module in the XF86config-4 is fglrx.
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post #8 of 28
4/5/04 at 4:04pm
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The fglrx didn't automatically detect my 9700 when it did probing device. I then manually change the XF86Config-4, replacing the "ATI Adapter" to "ATI Radeon 9700", when I startx, it gives error:
(EE) No devices detected
Fatal server error:
no screens found

What did you choose your screen if you have a 17' LCD?
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post #9 of 28
4/5/04 at 10:07pm
IIRC Fedora was having problems with 9700. Try FC2 or Gentoo or Slackware.
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post #10 of 28
4/6/04 at 10:50am
The possibility exists that the linux drivers from ATI do not recognise the 9700 yet.
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post #11 of 28
4/6/04 at 2:28pm
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I noticed that in fglrxconfig, the last step, after writing XF86Config-4, it tried to probe PCI device and then report no device detected, shouldn't it detect AGP instead of PCI? Is this the reason that I cannot get it work?
Also, is there any critical option in fglrx I have to make? I chose NO on quite some options.

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post #12 of 28
4/6/04 at 2:29pm
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FC2 wont' start at all, evety time automatically enter GRUB command line, don't know why.

I noticed that in fglrxconfig, the last step, after writing XF86Config-4, it tried to probe PCI device and then reported no device detected, shouldn't it detect AGP instead of PCI? Is this the reason that I cannot get it work?
Also, is there any critical option in fglrx I have to make? I chose NO on quite some options.

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post #13 of 28
4/6/04 at 3:05pm
Like I said there may not be 9700 mobile support in the driver yet - in which case you can change settings till you are old and grey - it wont work. You need to use the standard vesa driver to get 2d support if you want X.
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post #14 of 28
4/6/04 at 4:24pm
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Just tried xf86config and selected option 0 -vesa compatible. But it won't work either, error as follows:

Using vt 7
(WW) VESA(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xfa000000,0x1000000)

Any suggestion?
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post #15 of 28
4/6/04 at 4:50pm
Please post a copy of your XF86Config-4, and a copy of the X log. I am assuming when you installed the ATI drivers you made sure the module actually compiled and was able to be inserted into the kernel.

Check this out as well

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/Li...es.html#172394

No Mention of the 9700 M
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post #16 of 28
4/6/04 at 5:15pm
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Do you mean I have to manually recompile the kernel? I just did the rpm, then run the fglrx, and it didn't work out, nothing else.
Where is the X log? I am new to linux
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post #17 of 28
4/6/04 at 5:18pm
No not the whole kernel - just the ATI drivers. quite often the fglrx kernel mod does not get compiled. Erghh hang on a sec let me find my other post on this.

Ok so you install the fglrx rpm. And does it compile correctly? usually I have to force the rpm to install because it conflicts with X libs. After the install it is sometimes necessary to manually build the drivers.

cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod (I could be wrong about the _mod part)
sh make.sh
cd ..
sh make_install.sh

This will install the fglrx.ko module into your modules dir for your current kernel. Now Keep in mind - all of this will work ONLY if you have the kernel source installed. If you dont have the source installed then the module cannot be built, even if you werent building the module you should have the source

Try that. If the module gets installed ok you should see messages about it in the dmesg logs. If you like and have AIM I can help you with this tonight. Just PM me
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post #18 of 28
4/6/04 at 5:24pm
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Appreciate! I will try this out. I did recall that when I rpm there came some error message but I just neglected them. Just don't know where I can get the kernel sources. Should I download the fedora source rpm CD image and get the kernel source from there?
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post #19 of 28
4/6/04 at 5:27pm
Dont know anything about the fedora install - its possible you alread have the sources (/usr/src/linux) is there a tool like urpmi for fedora which allows you to update packages?
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post #20 of 28
4/6/04 at 8:07pm
the busID line is commented out. That's all I can see wrong with the XF86Config-4. Looking at the log it doesn't look like the M9700P (M11) is supported as yet, it might work with the 9600 drivers. Run lspci or maybe /sbin/lspci and see where the video card is at. It will tell you what card bus and chip it is. If it is truely at 01:00.0 uncomment the line I mentioned above and see what happens.
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