Poblem with Xorg and new hardware

[Beppe G.]

Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 09:40 +0200, Beppe G. wrote:
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>>Hi All.
>>My m/b (Intel G915EV) ships with an integrated video adapter.
>>I tried to install an external card cause I need more VRAM. So I plugged 
>>in an ATI Radeon X600pro PCI Express.
>>Booting the system, FC4 recognize new adapter but the system freeze 
>>completely at X login (either KDE and Gnome),
>>mouse and keyboard not responds and the only thing I can do is to reboot.
>>Have you any idea for a such problem?
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>>Below you can see the xorg.cong automatically configured.
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>>Thanks
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>>Beppe
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>X is configured for the original adapter and the driver will not work
>with the new adapter.
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>boot to runlevel 3 (text login) and run 
>"system-config-display --reconfig"
>This should auto detect the new adapter and properly configure the
>driver to at least get it running.  
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>If you need the capabilities of the card to support 3d and other
>advanced things, you will need to install the ATI drivers.
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Thanks Jeff.
Actually are you sure X is configured for the original adapter (Intel 
chipset)?
If you look at the automatically created configuration below you can see 
a "correct" driver!
Anyway I'll try to reconfigure it.

Beppe

>># Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
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>>Section "ServerLayout"
>>       Identifier     "Default Layout"
>>       Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>>       InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>>       InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>>EndSection
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>>
>>Section "Files"
>># RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
>># file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
>># no need to change the default.
>>
>># Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
>># By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
>># the X server to render fonts.
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>>       RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>>       FontPath     "unix/:7100"
>>EndSection
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>>
>>Section "Module"
>>       Load  "dbe"
>>       Load  "extmod"
>>       Load  "fbdevhw"
>>       Load  "glx"
>>       Load  "record"
>>       Load  "freetype"
>>       Load  "type1"
>>       Load  "dri"
>>EndSection
>>
>>
>>Section "InputDevice"
>># Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
>>#       Option  "Xleds"         "1 2 3"
>>
>>
>># To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
>>#       Option  "XkbDisable"
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>>
>># To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
>># lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
>># keyboard, you will probably want to use:
>>#       Option  "XkbModel"      "pc102"
>># If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
>>#       Option  "XkbModel"      "microsoft"
>>#
>># Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
>># For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
>>#       Option  "XkbLayout"     "de"
>># or:
>>#       Option  "XkbLayout"     "de"
>>#       Option  "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
>>#
>># If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
>># control keys, use:
>>#       Option  "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:swapcaps"
>># Or if you just want both to be control, use:
>>#       Option  "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:nocaps"
>>#
>>       Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>>       Driver      "kbd"
>>       Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>>       Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
>>EndSection
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>>
>>Section "InputDevice"
>>       Identifier  "Mouse0"
>>       Driver      "mouse"
>>       Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>>       Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>>       Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>>       Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
>>EndSection
>>
>>
>>Section "Monitor"
>>       Identifier   "Monitor0"
>>       VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>>       ModelName    "Unknown monitor"
>>       HorizSync    31.5 - 37.9
>>       VertRefresh  50.0 - 70.0
>>       Option      "dpms"
>>EndSection
>>
>>
>>Section "Device"
>>       Identifier  "Videocard0"
>>       Driver      "radeon"
>>       VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>>       BoardName   "ATI Radeon X600"
>>EndSection
>>
>>
>>Section "Screen"
>>       Identifier "Screen0"
>>       Device     "Videocard0"
>>       Monitor    "Monitor0"
>>       DefaultDepth     16
>>       SubSection "Display"
>>               Viewport   0 0
>>               Depth     16
>>               Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
>>       EndSubSection
>>EndSection
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>>
>>Section "DRI"
>>       Group        0
>>       Mode         0666
>>EndSection
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