Radeon 9600 Problem

John R. Shannon john at johnrshannon.com
Wed Nov 19 15:05:16 PST 2003


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>No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1)

Your card supports a second monitor. You can configure second device and 
monitor sections for it; you don't have to if you're using a single monitor.

>  no screens found

You're probably specifying a mode inconsistent with your devices capabilities. 
The probe output shows what is supported.

P.S.: I'm using a Radeon 9600. If you want, I can send you my XF86Config file 
for a model.

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 03:54 pm, Darrell Blake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm hoping someone on here can help me with this. I've been trying to get
> my ATI Radeon 9600 card working for ages. At first I was trying to get it
> working in Linux and, initially, I thought it was a problem with the kernel
> so I thought I'd try FreeBSD instead and I've grown to really like it.
> Anyway, I'm not interested in getting it to work in Linux anymore because I
> intend to carry on using FreeBSD. It seems really weird. I've been using
> Linux for five years and I think I like the idea of not being comfortable
> with an OS for a change =o)
>
> I get the same error message when I try to run X in Linux and FreeBSD. I've
> configured the kernel to use the "radeon" driver but when I run "startx" I
> get an error. /var/log/XFree86.0.log shows this...
>
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
> (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
> (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1)
> found (EE) No devices detected.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> I can run X fine if I change the driver to "vesa" but I don't want to run
> in vesa mode. I want to have accelerated graphics =o) Please help, I really
> don't want to have to use Windows every time I want to see some accelerated
> graphics.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Darrell
>
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John R. Shannon
john at johnrshannon.com
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