My ATI Radeon X800 don't work after the boot

[bengregor]

Xorg7.0: Support for Radeon r3xx/r4xx and PCI-Express chips.
But my Gigabyte ATI Radeon X800 R480 after the boot don't work. Xserver-xorg want the ati driver, but don't work, and the vesa driver work, but it's necessary to use dpkg-reconfigure. Why?
After the login I need to download the fglrx packages for a proper functioning. And dpkg-reconfigure.

[Zak B. Elep (zakame)]

Hi!

Can you provide us with your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

Thanks,

Zakame

[sean (sean-rains)]

I've run into this problem as well. I don't know if it affects other Radeon chips, but I do know that the ati driver does not work with the X800 cards at this moment. The vesa driver generally works, and the fglrx if it's installed properly. I think it has to do with the unwillingness of ATI to provide specs on its chips after the 9200, but I don't know enough about how the open source driver is developed to say that for sure. I could easily be totally off there. Specifically, the autodetection problem makes it impossible to run ubuntu/kubuntu from the live cd on this card, because there is no way around the auto-detection. Using Dapper Flight 6 Live CD, I attempted to use dpkg-reconfigure, but the restart of gdm failed. Maybe even trying that is evidence of my ignorance of how Live CDs work, but the problem exists either way.

Also, I'll try to provide my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files after I reinstall Flight 6 with an install CD. It could be a couple of days, though, because of other things, as a warning.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

I've seen a report saying that the radeon driver works but the ati driver does not.

[sean (sean-rains)]

This is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf from a Dapper beta install before workaround:

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
 FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
 FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
 FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
 FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
 FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
 FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
 FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
 # path to defoma fonts
 FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
 Load "i2c"
 Load "bitmap"
 Load "ddc"
 Load "dri"
 Load "extmod"
 Load "freetype"
 Load "glx"
 Load "int10"
 Load "type1"
 Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
 Driver "kbd"
 Option "CoreKeyboard"
 Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
 Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
 Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Configured Mouse"
 Driver "mouse"
 Option "CorePointer"
 Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
 Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
 Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
 Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver "wacom"
  Identifier "stylus"
  Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option "Type" "stylus"
  Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver "wacom"
  Identifier "eraser"
  Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option "Type" "eraser"
  Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver "wacom"
  Identifier "cursor"
  Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option "Type" "cursor"
  Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. R423 UI [Radeon X800PRO (PCIE)]"
 Driver "ati"
 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Generic Monitor"
 ...

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

This is a known problem, and related to the "ati" driver not delegating the video handling to the "radeon" driver. A big problem, but unfortunately still no fix available (besides a workaround of changing xorg.conf to use "radeon").

This and the other duplicates are thus duplicates of bug 30284.