Yet more New data. Missing ATI driver [??] (Was: Re: xorg driver bug)

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 02:16:27PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:17:53AM +0330, Bahman M. wrote:
> > On 2007-10-15 Gary Kline wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > 	Guys,
> > > > 
> > > > 	Has anybody with any Dell run into this before?  I just got
> > > > a new Matrox with 32M of video ram.  Run with the "mga" driver, X
> > > > comes up extremely dark.  If I change the driver to the "vesa" X
> > > > comes up with normal brightness but the resolution is terrible.  At
> > > > 	most 640x480.  tHis could be a hardware bug;I'm hoping it is
> > > > 	just not having selected the right driver.  
> > > > 
> > > > 	Anybody know what to try next?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 	Update, and no-joy: i've added Modes lines, tried different
> > > flags. Still, using the "mga" drivr gives a dark screen; only the
> > > "vesa" works. none of the xorg config toools work.  The Matroc
> > > Millennium G450 is brand new, so doubt it's the card.  The previous
> > > card had the same problem--way to dark--soI got this new card.
> > > 
> > Some years ago, I had some similar problem with a Vistac monitor using
> > nVidia (on Linux).  I found that it was the monitor not doing well in
> > some resolutions or colour depths.  Changing the monitor solved the
> > problem.
> > 
> > I'd suggest you try with another monitor and see if it works.
> 
> 
> 	It *could* be my CRT but it works on my 3 other KVM'd platforms 
> 	flawlessly.  Besides, the reason I bought the new G450 was
> 	because the  exact same thing was happening with my other v-card.
> 
> 
> 	I tried "mga" and gathered the following data from the failure
> 	dump.   [[X did work, but there was  this huge, dark band a
> 	couple inches from the top (where the display was much lightr)
> 	and after the drk middle band, the display was also light toward
> 	the bottom.
> 
> 
> 	Here is what I found after I did a shutdown now:
> 
> 
> 
> Requesting insufficient memory window!:  start 0xfd800000 to 0x7efffff size 0x2000000
> (EE) Cannnot find empty range to map base to
> (II)  Module "ramdac" already built-in
> (EE)  [drm] drmOpen failed  
> (EE) DRM(0) [dm]  DRMScreenInit failed  .  Disabling DRI
> 
> 
> 	Does this ring a bell among anybody who is familiar with xorg?
> 	My thinking now is that something is wrong with  the video on the 
> 	m'board; that both this new G50 and the last card were all right.
> 
> 	Any thoughts?
> 
> 	thanks,



		I finally tried booting Windows and it says that I have
		no "ATI driver" installed.   What does this means?

		I'm supposed to install  some ATI driver.  Say wha-??

		gary

> 
> 
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > Bahman
> 
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