Re: Debian on an iBook

I've tried reconfiguring xserver as described below, but no luck. I looked at lspci, and it says:

0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 48
Memory at 98000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at 802400 [size=256]
Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at 90020000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

when I type startx, it says:

(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found

X10: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining

I looked at var/log/XFree86.0.log and at the end of the file it says:

(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:10:0
(II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 M7 LW".
(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:16:9) found
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found




Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:34:18AM +0100, James Dunn wrote:
Hi,

I have just installed Debian onto my iBook (900MHz PowerPC G3, 640MB SDRAM, ATY Rage M7 Video). I followed the instructions here: http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html
1) Debian boots ok, but the X Server isn't configured properly - is there a guide to do this? (i'm a newbie!)

there are many guides. the basic procedure though, is to figure out
what hardware you have (lspci -vv and look for the video controller)
and then dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86... sometimes over and over
until you get it right. It helps if youjust use startx to test you
xf86config as there's less overhead and IMO fewer potential problems
than as associated with [g|k|x]dm. Once you get a working X setup, if
you want to use a *dm, then you will know that any further problems
aren't associated with X. be sure to post your problems up here as
many can help you. be sure to include ouput from
/var/log/Xfree86.log.0 with a focus on (EE) lines in that log.

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