Dear Folks, I have recently decide to move to Linux and purchased a two dvd set of debian 3.1 in October 05. By default it installs with a 2.4 version kernel which doesn't support USB disks/ camera which is a main feature of my intended use.

I have a ATI Radeon X600pro pci express video card and downloaded the driver files from the ATI site. These seem to install ok with a 2.4 kernel on a 32 bit setup. However here is the problem I'd like help with:

I read I'd need to install kernel 2.6 to get usb support and this worked - camera recognised - brill. But I can't get a GUI of any form despite trying hard reading books and forums. This is what I have:

AMD Athlon64 3200+, Abit AN8 ultra motherboard, ATI radeon x600pro video card, ps2 mouse, std 104 keyboard.

When the system boots I just get 'could not start x', and I have to use text console. I've tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, and tried lots of different options to get x going , including choosing vesa, vga, allocating 256000 kB memory (even though the x600pro has 256 MB of its own ram), but I can't get x going.

If I try installing the driver with the ati installer to create a debian 3.1 package it fails with Make:dh_testdir command not found, Make: *** [build] error 127

If i try installing with the ati installer but not using the package create options the error is 'no kernel development environment'


Here is some more info on kernel 2.6.8-11 AMD generic
and the ATI driver is ati-driver-installer-8.19.10-x-86_64.run and fglrx64-4-3-0-8.19.10-1x86_64.rpm

If I reboot with the 2.4 kernel x works ok

I'd much appreciate any help you may be able to offer, Many thanks,
Paul

Not sure about the error when trying to create the package, but for the second method, you need the kernel sources installed, appropriate to your kernel. Then the installer can compile the appropriate fglrx module.

I'm not a debian type, but i would presume

apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.????

CHeers.

Thanks I have tried this but no joy