RHEL WS4 and Radeon Video Card Woes

rrrssssss · 01-22-2007, 12:36 PM

Hello forum,

I ordered a years subscription for Red Hat Enterprise WS 4 two weeks ago and also ordered the media disks so I wouldn't have to download large files.

I was forced to use text mode for the installation since my video card was not reconized at the very beginning of the installation (Radeon X800).

But after the install was completed and after I rebooted, the hardware detector, Kudzu, wasn't able to configure my video card even though it reconized it correctly as a Radeon X800. I got a message saying I had a segmentation fault. So after it finished booting up and after I started the X server, I then got a message saying Fatal Error - failed to initialized core devices. I also noticed that I don't have an xorg.config file - anywhere.

I believe that this version of Red Hat came out February of 2005, which is probably before ATI even made the Radeon X800 video card.

I'm still in good shape, however, since I have a quadruple multi-boot configuration with Mandriva 2007, Fedora Core 6, Windows XP, and what's left of Red Hat. All of these other operating systems recognize my video card perfectly. I am planning on replacing Red Hat with Debian 3.1 if things don't start to look better with Red Hat.

Is there any hope that this installation of Red Hat can be successful? If so, can the problem be fixed?

I appreciate you taking the time to read this,

Roy

Lenard · 01-22-2007, 01:28 PM

So visit ATI's web site and download the closed source driver;

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Do yourself a favor and disable the kudzu service it causes more problems then it fixes;

/sbin/chkconfig --levels 345 kudzu off

rrrssssss · 01-22-2007, 03:00 PM

Thanks Lenard,

I disabled Kudzu with the chkconfig command. And now, no more Kudzu. Thanks.

When I installed the ATI driver, it said it couldn't fine the xorg.config file and after I did a file search of the entire Red Hat partition, it didn't find it either.

Can you please tell me if there is a way to generate an xorg.conf file? Or maybe use a template? I'm totally in the dark.

Thanks much,
Roy

Lenard · 01-22-2007, 03:30 PM

As root from the console; system-config-display

rrrssssss · 01-22-2007, 04:48 PM

Thanks again for you time Lenard,

I have already tried the system-config-display command but not only did it fail to create an xorg.conf file, it also showed error messages, something about not finding a device.

However, I did try the Xorg --configure command and it did indeed create an xorg.conf.new file so I renamed it and moved it where it belonged. So now I have an xorg.config file.

But when I ran aticonfig again, I got errors.

And I am still getting error messages whenever I try to start X. I have pasted my xorg.config file below if you might still be interested. I doctored it up a little to try to make it look similar to the xorg.cong file from Mandriva which also has the ATI driver installed but I may have made matters worse.

I would feel good about myself if I could get this to work.

Thanks much,
Roy

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "vnc"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	#DisplaySize	  360   280	# mm
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "VSC"
	ModelName    "A95f"
	
	HorizSync    30.0 - 97.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 180.0
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
       Identifier "device1"
       VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc."
       BoardName "ATI Radeon (fglrx)
       Option "DPMS

        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "BusType"            	# [<str>]
        #Option     "CPPIOMode"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CPusecTimeout"      	# <i>
        #Option     "AGPMode"            	# <i>
        #Option     "AGPFastWrite"       	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "AGPSize"            	# <i>
        #Option     "GARTSize"           	# <i>
        #Option     "RingSize"           	# <i>
        #Option     "BufferSize"         	# <i>
        #Option     "EnableDepthMoves"   	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "EnablePageFlip"     	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoBackBuffer"       	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRI"                	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "PanelOff"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "DDCMode"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "MonitorLayout"      	# [<str>]
        #Option     "IgnoreEDID"         	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"           	# <i>
        #Option     "MergedFB"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CRT2HSync"          	# [<str>]
        #Option     "CRT2VRefresh"       	# [<str>]
        #Option     "CRT2Position"       	# [<str>]
        #Option     "MetaModes"          	# [<str>]
        #Option     "MergedDPI"          	# [<str>]
        #Option     "NoMergedXinerama"   	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0" 	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "DisplayPriority"    	# [<str>]
        #Option     "PanelSize"          	# [<str>]
        #Option     "ForceMinDotClock"   	# <freq>
        #Option     "RenderAccel"        	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SubPixelOrder"      	# [<str>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "DynamicClocks"      	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "ati"
	VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
	BoardName   "Unknown Board"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Lenard · 01-23-2007, 06:11 AM

Try replacing the last section with something like;

Code:

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection