ATI Radeon X700 Unable to Probe

[grandwazir]

When I attempt to install fedora 3 it is unable to find my PCI Express Video Card and reverts to the text based installer.
Once it was installed i tried to use system-config-display which returns with this error

/dev/fb0 does not exist!

It does however identify it correctly as a ATI card and also finds its place on the PCI bus but won't actually initalise it.

Any ideas?

[imdeemvp]

You can use nano or emacs and see whats listed under the video driver in your xorg.conf. I believe you insert "ati" and try to use a generic driver for the moment. I did it once but cant exactly recall how I did it.

[grandwazir]

I would try that but the only problem is that fedora didn't generate an xorg.conf at all.
Trying to use system-config-display ends in it complaining on line 388.
Are there any other tools useful for creating xorg.conf files for fedora?

[weapon]

Xorg -configure (must be root)

otherwise get somone to post theirs (mine is in a mess) and change it to your specs

Weapon

[grandwazir]

I tried doing an Xorg -configure just now and it did sucessfully create an xorg file.

However when I attempt to run X my screen goes black with no display (thinking it may be a refresh problem).
When checking my xorg.conf I can't see any references to refresh rates. How would I go about inserting them?

[weapon]

Change the monitor section in your config to this
(it might be a good idea to #coment out the original and paste this in instead)
This is the default 1024 crt
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor 1024x768"
HorizSync 31.5 - 57.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

the important sections here are the Horizontal Synch and Vertical refresh

if that fails to get a working screen you can try to coment out the subsection displays (all of them) under section screen
(this worked for me but i run at a strange res (1154x768))

Is Xorg starting at all or is it just not running at the right resolution etc?

Weapon

[grandwazir]

Well it appears that xorg starts but once it starts the moniter shuts off with a ? mark leading me to believe it doesn't like the refresh / resolution it is trying to run in.

I'll give your suggestions a try and repost

[grandwazir]

I have now managed to get into gnome! woo!

I found that it was actually failing on two accounts the mouse not being detected and the card not being initalised both had to be fixed manually.
Xorg wouldn't detect any mice I tried although I had console mouse services..

I'll post my xorg.conf so anyone else with a X700 won't have this problem. I have not specfied a moniter X seemed to detect it alright when starting anyway. Although system-config-display is still not playing nice failing to load in X and still complaining about an error on line 388. Anyone else had this problem? I've opened a bug in bugzilla anyway.

[weapon]

Can your monitor only go up to 800x600? because you may want to fix that up in your config (man xorg.conf)

Weapon

[grandwazir]

Yeah I posted just as I got into Fedora for the first time since then I have tweaked the resolution upwards to something more comfortable.

[jeanfiga]

Has anybody been able to use the ATI driver (fglrx) with this card? I need it to be able to do 3d stuff and OpenGL

[windershinders]

Hey jeanfiga,

My setup is this:

AMD64 3000+, Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 board, ATI X700 Pro PCI-E

On FC3 I was able to get the fglrx kernel module running properly to provide DRI (3D acceleration, OpenGL) by doing: yum install kernel-module-fglrx-$(uname -r), and then by running fglrxconfig to generate the xorg.conf file. If you have my problem you must also edit the BusID under the 'Device' section of your xorg.conf file to reflect the PCI-E bus ID of your card (For me it is "BusID=5:0:0"), as the bus ID is not detected. Does the same happen for you?

From there 3D acceleration worked, and I could do among many other things play unreal tournament.

Unforunately I am unable to get 3D acceleration to work for my card under FC4. The Livna.org rpm locks my system up. I have to use the ATI Driver Installer from ATI (or ATI's rpm) to even get X to start, and I am stuck without 3D acceleration now.

I'll definitely let you know if I have success, and am glad to communicate with someone that has my card. Do we perhaps have the same chipset in common (nForce 4, CK804)?

Anyway, try installing the livna rpm, running fglrxconfig, edit your xorg.conf file and make sure that you have a valid BusID set for your card and let me know what happens.



Has anybody been able to use the ATI driver (fglrx) with this card? I need it to be able to do 3d stuff and OpenGL

[CrystalCowboy]

I have some X700Pro cards on FC4 machines. Yes, they are supported by the ATI proprieatry driver, which I installed via livna.

The X700Pro was not recognized by the generic radeon driver. I filed a Bugzilla report about that and support was supposedly added for the X700 series. I don't know how long it will take for that to filter into Fedora Core distributions.

I don't know about 3D support and OpenGL. I don't do anything sophisticated on those systems.

[windershinders]

I have some X700Pro cards on FC4 machines. Yes, they are supported by the ATI proprieatry driver, which I installed via livna.

The X700Pro was not recognized by the generic radeon driver. I filed a Bugzilla report about that and support was supposedly added for the X700 series. I don't know how long it will take for that to filter into Fedora Core distributions.

I don't know about 3D support and OpenGL. I don't do anything sophisticated on those systems.
Yeah, the generic radeon driver does not work for the X700 card. Were you able to perform an install and get a gui on FC4 without doing anything special? Or did you have to install the ATI properietary driver via the Livna rpm before getting a gui?

Since you don't know about 3D support and OpenGL, it is a requirement for accellerated graphics, video-decoding, any games such as unrealtournament. You can tell if 3D acceleration is working for your by doing this: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep '(WW)' -- and you will see any lines of warning during X initialization such that DRI initialization failed (DRI is needed for 3D accelleration).

I think my problem may be that my X700 Pro PCI-E 256MB card is not properly 'addressed' -- my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file reports only 128MB of ram addressed by the driver. When I edit the device section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to include 'VideoRam 256' , X will crash and report that the memory could not be addressed.

This is also interesting:

[user@FC4AMD64 ~]$ dmesg | grep invalid
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS

-- great now I know that I have a BIOS /pnp/chipset issue to make things worse.

Previous versions of Fedora and the Livna kernel module produced a working fglrx module with 3D acceleration.

For this reason I am looking for anyone else who has Exactly my card, and systemboard (Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9).

[Donkyhotay]

I'm a noob to linux, I know how to edit xorg.conf but where exactly does the command specifing the PCI-E bus go and what is the exact command.