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# Hardware configuration
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CONFIG_DRM=y
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This
must be disabled in the kernel (this is kernel support for XFree's DRI-- Direct Rendering Interface-- the Direct Rendering Management). This is the single most important setting that must be disabled for the ATI drivers to work properly, and is probably the reason yours aren't.
So this has to go, too (but it will, as soon as you disable its parent setting):
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# Hardware configuration
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CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y
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Afaik, this is the DRM for the old Radeon series, not for the R350 chipset present on the 9700. I believe this works on Radeons up to the 9200 (which still used the R300 chipset, iirc), but that's no help to you. Turn it off.
I suspect this should be off as well (it was off on 2.6.7, where my bootsplash worked, but it is now on in 2.6.7-r7 where my bootsplash is not working, but it may be that 2.6.7-r7 doesn't include the bootsplash patch, since I can't enable bootsplash in the kernel anyway. Testing whether it should be off or on would require either an upgrade to 2.6.7-r8, or a recompile and reboot, so I'm not going to do that now. In any case, it only seems to affect the console frame buffer, rather than anything related to X, as that worked on both kernels with the different settings, so it's clearly a side issue):
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# Graphics support
CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y
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Up to you whether you want to leave it (and risk needing to recompile the kernel again later to turn it off), or turn it off now (and risk needing to recompile the kernel to turn it back on, but I think that's a much less likely possibility).
Anyway, what you
definitely need to do is turn off DRM-- I think that's all, it looks like you've enabled your motherboard's AGP support, assuming you have a VIA chipset board, if not, you should compile a module for the chipset you do have-- recompile the kernel, boot to the recompiled kernel, and reinstall the ATI drivers. This time they should load and run.
Let us know. Good luck, hope this helps.
