What do you get for this card when you do 'lspci'?

I decided to give the instructions here http://www.desktop-linux.net/ati.htm a try. And it worked! Well, sort of. Now, I can log in to a console and do 'startx' and X starts up fine but I have to move the mouse (touch pad) around for a couple of seconds for it to initialize it, then it works great. In my XF86Config-4 file, I have the mouse protocol set to "auto" and in /var/log/XFree86.0.log, I see:

(II) Mouse autoprobe: selecting MouseManPlusPS/2 protocol

If I change

Option "Protocol" "auto"

to

Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2"

in my XF86Config-4 file under the mouse's "InputDevice" section, when I do startx, I don't have the delay before the mouse starts working.

glx is loading, dri is loading, I'm using the "radeon" driver. All seem to be working OK. glxgears shows 400-500 fps where before I was only getting 100-200 fps. This still isn't as good as I think I should be getting with this card, but hey, I'll take it.

The only problem I'm having now is that kdm isn't starting when the machine starts up. It tries, but dumps me to a console. /var/log/XFree86.0.log shows:

error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
(**) Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2"
(**) Mouse1: Protocol: "MouseManPlusPS/2"
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
(**) Mouse1: always reports core events
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse1: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux
No such device.
(EE) Mouse1: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse1"
(II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
(II) Keyboard "Keyboard1" handled by legacy driver
(WW) No core pointer registered
(EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
(II) Server_Terminate keybinding not found
No core pointer

Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices

As I said before, I can log in to a console and do 'startx' and it comes up fine. From the xterm there, I can start icewm, and it's usuable, but I'd rather have kdm starting at boot up.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

BamaRob

What sort of touchpad do you have?

OK. I figured out that I had some symlinks that were screwed up. I seem to have everything working reasonably well now. I'm running XFree86 4.3.99.12 with the radeon driver. glx and dri are both loading and everything seems to be working good. I played the "Ice Age" DVD which had problems before keeping the video and audio in synch. It plays flawlessly now. Tuxracer and chromium both work great. 'glxgears' averages 561.800 fps. Still not the greatest, but more than sufficient for my uses thus far.

Thanks to all, especially Aussie (for the patience you've shown).

BR


P.S. Also had to add:

Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"

to my "ServerFlags" section.

I have a similar model (zv5160us) with the same hardware... ATI Technologies.. UNknown model soundcard and a ATI Radeon 9000 IGP graphics card.. am running suse 9.0... Am having trouble 'insmod'ing the snd-atiixp module into the default kernel that comes with Suse 9.0... am i missing something ?
Please help... I too had the same problem with the official ATI graphics drivers... "No Screens found" found i started X... the install options are very confusing... does someone have a standard install config for ATI flrglx install that i cud use ?...

pheakv6,
We really need to see your error messages before we can comment on what may be causing them, and filling out your user details with your distribution helps, the version of said distro is another piece of the puzzle, so to speak.

My soundcard wont even start, I have the zv5120us as well, what do you think the problem is?

DyeKid,

Sometimes this card would work, some time it wouldn't work. After doing some research I found that turning off ACPI fixed the issue.

I added pci=noacpi to my kernel parms

You might try turning off ACPI. My speculation is that ACPI turns off the IRQ for the sound card.

Hope that helps.

You might also try to go to ALSA website and follow the install guide (sorry in advance if you have already). The link is:
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...&module=atiixp

I am running ALSA 1.0.2 on fedora 2 core.

all you have to do is run rexima and make sure volume and PCm is turned up.. otherwise check to make sure the sound is not neing used by the modem .. therefore for you have to blacklist the modem for sond..

I know this is old, but: I have this zv5120us, sound works with ubuntu 5.10. just wanted to let you know. it also worked with suse 10 and slackware (had to setup alsa).

If you succeeded, what steps did you take to make the ati drivers work? the newest ati drivers say they don't support 3d for ati mobility 9000 9100...

oh, the modem is also working with precompiled slmodemd drivers from linmodems.org, but ONLY in ubuntu.