FC6 - X server can't start - embedded ATI Rage XL AGP - DellPowerEdge 700
Charles Butterfield
charles.butterfield at nextcentury.com
Sun Nov 5 05:43:07 UTC 2006
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Cornette [mailto:fc-cornette at insight.rr.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 8:46 PM
> To: For users of Fedora
> Subject: Re: FC6 - X server can't start - embedded ATI Rage XL AGP -
> DellPowerEdge 700
>
> Charles Butterfield wrote:
> > After converting from FC5 to FC6 (clean install, NOT an upgrade), I
can
> > no longer get my X server to start.
> >
> > Target System:
> > - Machine: Dell PowerEdge 700
> > - Integrated Video: ATI Rage XL AGP
> >
> >
> > Snippets from key files:
> > /etc/sysconfig/hwconf -- includes the following:
> > class: VIDEO
> > bus: PCI
> > detached: 0
> > desc: "ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL"
> > video.xdriver: ati
> > vendorId: 1002
> > deviceId: 4752
> > subVendorId: 1028
> > subDeviceId: 0167
> > pciType: 1
> > pcidom: 0
> > pcibus: 3
> > pcidev: e
> > pcifn:
> >
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf - includes the following:
> > Section "Device"
> > Identifier "Videocard0"
> > Driver "ati"
> > EndSection
> >
> > /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- end with:
> > (II) Primary Device is: ISA
> > (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Videocard0".
> > (EE) No devices detected
> >
> > Any advice about what to do next would be appreciated.
> > - Charlie Butterfield
> >
>
> This sounds like a bug to me since it is a pci device in hwconfig and
if
> I am reading the snippets correctly, it is detected or the information
> is wrong in one or the other.
>
> Jim
> --
> You will be advanced socially, without any special effort on your
part.
>
Yeah. I've been digging into it and discovered (via strace) that Xorg
is terminating its brute force pci scan of /proc/bus/pci/... a bit
before encountering my video device, which is the last device in the pci
space. scanpci and lspci show my video, but "Xorg -scanpci" doesn't
show the device.
I've submitted is as Bugzilla bug 214050 at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214050
Regards
-- Charlie
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