Mandriva 2008.1
Gigabytes MP73 MoBo
nVidia 630i chipset
RadeonHD 4350 graphics card

(EE) device not found

History:

I had exactly the same trouble when trying to get a driver to install for the onboard nVidia 7100 graphics card. I installed my copy of 2008.1 on a mates laptop with a built in RadeonHD 4350 graphics card and the drivers loaded and ran without a hitch so I bought myself one of the same cards thinking this would solve my problem. (au$50 - cheap)

(EE) device not found

OK. So I went through the process of doing all the updates, Kernel, Xorg, ldetect, HAL, etc. This takes forever when you're on dialup. Updated my bios while I was at it. Tried installing fglrx again.

(EE) device not found

Went into MCC again and looked at my hardware list and noticed that the majority of the devices were listed as "unknown" even though everything seemed to be running correctly. Did a lot of reading about device loading and configuration as required by Mandriva along with a close examination of my own files and was extremely disappointed to discover that Mandriva didn't bother to include listings for a whole host of device ID's in ldetect for devices that were 12 months old when this Mandriva was released.

For the sake of a simple text list of names and numbers I thought they would do better than that but these device ID's were'nt listed in 2009.1's ldetect either. Sad but true.

These ID's are however listed in 2010's ldetect so I raided their svn repositories and bodgied 2010's ldetect into my 2008 installation along with libpci, libpciaccess and pciutils. Went back into MCC and had a look at the hardware list - WoW - every device is named correctly including my new video card. Go into drakx11 and it suggests the "RadeonHD 2000 or later fglrx" as the correct driver instead of the usual "vesa". You beauty, install says I.

(EE) device not found

Aaaarrgghh!!!

Pull hair, kick table leg and hurt toe, decide against further self mutilation and seriously consider having a cry.

Can anyone else give me any suggestions? But please - if you're going to tell me I should proc my pipe with cat grep or similar can you make your instructions very concise, I don't know my way around the shell commands very well.

Cheers,

Andrew.

Almost forgot, here's the output of lspci:

[andrew@localhost bin]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP73 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:01.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:01.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:01.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:01.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:02.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1)
00:03.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP73 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:03.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP73 SMBus (rev a1)
00:03.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP73 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:03.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP73 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100/nForce 630i USB (rev a1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP73 [nForce 630i] USB 2.0 Controller (EHCI) (rev a1)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP73 IDE (rev a1)
00:09.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP73 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP73 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP73 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP73 IDE (rev a2)
01:06.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350]
02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc R700 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4000 Series]
[andrew@localhost bin]$

Cheers,

Andrew.

OK, the device is listed on your PCI buss, but do you have a driver loaded? Try lsmod to get a list of all loaded kernel modules.

Hi Ernie, thanks for jumping in but the problem is now solved.


After many different attempts at getting things right for the past 2 days I had partial success by uninstalling all the official mandriva fglrx modules and installing the ATI driver from ATI's website, version 8.65.

This at least gave me a correct screen size and resolution but scrolling through document pages caused strange flickering effects. So I went for the full reinstall.

I did all the updates that I could think of that would be helpful or in some way related including those pci and ldetect rpms from the 2010 repository then installed the ATI 8.65 driver. I didn't even attempt to use the fglrx driver that shows in the repository list in MCC.

Then I ran aticonfig --initial with the --force option and rebooted.

Everything now works sweet, correct screen size and resolution, full 3D acceleration, Catalyst Control Centre, the whole deal.

Hope this info helps someone else.

Cheers,

Andrew.