ATI Radeon IGP 320M won't work

Limbonic · 10-10-2006, 07:12 PM

Hello everybody,
having browsed the forum, I found some advice on how to try getting ATI's Radeon IGP 320M to work.
The problem is this:
using Ubuntu, X can't be started and the screen simply freezes (should we call it a 'Black Screen of Death' ? ;-) ).
I tried to remove the ATI driver in xconfig file and have it taking the Vesa driver instead, but still the log tells me, the system tries the (removed) ATI drivers.
Is there perhaps a simple command line that could possibly help me with this?
Thanks for your ideas in advance,
Greetings,
Limbonic

dracolich · 10-11-2006, 06:15 PM

If you're trying the ATI proprietary driver, forget it. It doesn't support the 320M. My laptop has the same card and running Slackware 11. I tried two versions of fglrx and neither worked. Using the radeon driver supplied with Xorg works (better than nothing anyway).

Limbonic · 10-12-2006, 04:31 AM

Thanks for your answer!
I just need 2D, so I don't care about the sophisticated stuff, I just want some output on my screen.

Do I have to delete anything when editing xconfig, or is it enough to just select the Radeon driver there?
Thank you again,
Greetings,
Limbonic

dracolich · 10-12-2006, 08:55 AM

It should be enough to just set the driver to radeon. Here's my Graphics Device section from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Code:

Section "Device"
     Identifier "ATI Radeon Mobility"
     Driver "radeon"
     VendorName "ATI"
     BoardName "Radeon Mobility U1"
     VideoRam 32768
     BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
     Option "AGPMode" "4"
     Option "AGPFastWrite" "On"
     Option "EnablePageFlip" "On"
EndSection

Hopefully this gets you going. You may not need all of the Option lines. The Identifier can be whatever you want, but in your Screen section make sure the Device specified is EXACTLY the same as the Identifier specified in the Graphics Device section. Same goes for the Monitor. Finally, further down in the ServerLayout section make sure the Screen name matches the one from the Screen section.

And at the bottom, to enable DRI for users add these lines

Code:

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

If you still have trouble post the contents of your config file.

Limbonic · 10-12-2006, 06:24 PM

Ok, so you really pushed me forward. But still there is a problem. The error is:

Quote:

undefined monitor "generic monitor" referenced by screen "default screen"

The relevant sections of xorg.conf are:

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Radeon Mobility"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "ATI Radeon Mobility"
Option "DPMS"
Horisync 28-50
VertRefresh 43-75
Endsection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "ATI Radeon Mobility"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"

You told me to match the Monitor and Screen sections, but I am not sure about what should be changed into what... I guess somethings wrong here...

Electro · 10-12-2006, 06:38 PM

Change ATI Radeon Mobility in the monitor section to Generic Monitor.

Limbonic · 10-13-2006, 04:18 AM

Thanky for that, the former error is gone, now I have:

(EE) Failed to load module "radeon" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers availbale.

Fatal server eroor:
no screens found.