Bug 7959

Summary: Radeon X300 (PCIE) won't start with Driver "ati"
Product: xorg Reporter: Paul Smith <psmith>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high    
Version: 7.0.0   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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Description Flags
xorg.conf
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Xorg.0.log none

Description Paul Smith 2006-08-22 13:19:28 UTC 
I installed Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS (Intel x86 desktop CD).  During the livecd bringup
it couldn't start X on my system, which is a Dell Dimension 9150 desktop.  lspci
etc. report the video card as "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300
(PCIE)]" and the X autoconfig decided to the use the "ati" video card driver.  I
looked and it seemed that this was a "meta-driver" so this should work (?)

To get X to come up I had to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and change the
"Device" "Driver" entry to "vesa", which worked OK.  After I had installed
Ubuntu and updated I tried again with the "ati" driver but got the same result.
 I'll add xorg.conf and the X log file as attachments.

After I got the system up I installed the ATI proprietary drivers (packaged for
Ubuntu here: http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf) and tried out fglrx
driver and that works correctly.
Comment 1 Paul Smith 2006-08-22 13:21:17 UTC 
Created attachment 6650 [details]
xorg.conf

This xorg.conf is my working version: to get the failure I comment out (or
delete) the "vesa" and "fglrx" lines and uncomment the "ati" line.
Comment 2 Paul Smith 2006-08-22 13:24:17 UTC 
Created attachment 6651 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Log file from trying to start X with the "ati" driver.
Comment 3 Timo Jyrinki 2006-11-01 12:51:01 UTC 
Looking at the Xorg.0.log, this is the same bug as with my X800, ie bug 6976.
Last lines are similarly "(WW) ATI:  PCI Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 could not be
detected!", and "(WW) ATI:  PCI Mach64 in slot 1:0:1 could not be detected!" and
"(EE) No devices detected.".

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6796 ***

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