Am 05. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Joe and Colleen Huber so:

> Anyone gotten an ATI Radeon X300 SE to work? The best I can seem to get is a
> grey screen with a "X" that moves about in response to mouse movement after
> a bit of tinkering with thr config file generated from xf86config (it's
> deciding to use the vesa driver).
>
> ATI's website has a driver but you need the sources and I am trying to get
> this working with Debian/Sarge (not that I would really know what to do with
> the source code being new to Linux... but if I'm going to "hose things" I
> would rather do so now since I don't have too much set up ...in the event it
> all has to be reinstalled from scratch).
>
> Do I have any options beyond waiting for the offical release of Sarge (or go
> with Woody)?

Kill off X and try 'X -configure'.

/etc/init.d/gdm stop
/etc/init.d/kdm stop

The former is for a GNOME setup and the latter for KDE.

'X -configure' will tell you what to do. I suggest making a backup of your
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, just in case. If you don't know how to use RCS
I suggest just tacking the date on the file to the filename.

For instance:

# ls -l /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3398 2004-08-09 01:30 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
# cp -p /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.09Aug2004

ciao,

der.hans
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