[Linux] ATI Driver Problems

[matt74441]

Okay, I have a Compaq v2305CA and I'm having some issues with the ATI Xpress 200m. I'm using the newest ATI Propietary Drivers from their website, which clearly states that the card is supported, but after I use the ATI installer and then run fglrxconfig, at the end of the installation it says that the card wasn't found. This is the output from lspci, which clearly shows the device is there:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01)

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a3f

0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller

0000:00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller

0000:00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller

0000:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11)

0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI

0000:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge

0000:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge

0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

0000:00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4378 (rev 02)

0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map

0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)

0000:05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

0000:05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

0000:05:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller

Here is the relevant section from the xorg config file:

Section "Device"

Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter"

Driver "fglrx"

# ### generic DRI settings ###

# === disable PnP Monitor ===

#Option "NoDDC"

# === disable/enable XAA/DRI ===

Option "no_accel" "no"

Option "no_dri" "no"

# === misc DRI settings ===

Option "mtrr" "off" # disable DRI mtrr mapper, driver has its own code for mtrr

# ### FireGL DDX driver module specific settings ###

# === Screen Management ===

Option "DesktopSetup" "(null)"

Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"

# === TV-out Management ===

Option "TVFormat" "NTSC-M"

Option "TVStandard" "VIDEO"

Option "TVHSizeAdj" "0"

Option "TVVSizeAdj" "0"

Option "TVHPosAdj" "0"

Option "TVVPosAdj" "0"

Option "TVHStartAdj" "0"

Option "TVColorAdj" "0"

Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x00000000"

Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x00000000"

# === OpenGL specific profiles/settings ===

Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"

Option "CapabilitiesEx" "0x00000000"

# === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===

Option "VideoOverlay" "on"

# === OpenGL Overlay ===

# Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay

# will be disabled automatically

Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"

# === Center Mode (Laptops only) ===

Option "CenterMode" "off"

# === Pseudo Color Visuals (8-bit visuals) ===

Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"

# === QBS Management ===

Option "Stereo" "off"

Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"

# === FSAA Management ===

Option "FSAAEnable" "no"

Option "FSAAScale" "1"

Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"

Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"

Option "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"

# === Misc Options ===

Option "UseFastTLS" "0"

Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"

Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes"

Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"

# BusID "" # no device found at config time

Screen 0

EndSection

Does anyone know how to fix this? The video works fine with the vesa driver, but this monitor uses a 1280x768 resolution and vesa will only use 1024x768, much to my annoyance. Everything else on the laptop works fine, its just a matter of tweaking at this point. I'm using Gentoo 2005.1.

[matt74441]

Bump?

[matt74441]

Nevermind, I figured it out. I didn't know how to substitute in the BusID, but after a little messing around I got it.

[Iamit2900]

Yo, where did you find the Laptop Graphics Card Section for Linux on the ATI Site for Drivers? I looked everywhere and got redirected to Windows 2000 Drivers.

[raid517]

The Linux drivers are unified - which means they cover all chipsets.

[Firefly x64]

the 200m has **** linux support

[matt74441]

Yo, where did you find the Laptop Graphics Card Section for Linux on the ATI Site for Drivers? I looked everywhere and got redirected to Windows 2000 Drivers.

586440232[/snapback]

As much as I like ATI, I will say that their drivers download area is freaking terrible. After a great deal of running around in circles, I found that you just click the Motherboard link and it takes you right to it. Once I got the drivers installed and modified the xorg config file (the BusID was wrong), the drivers seem to be working fine. I haven't tried running any games yet, but I don't imagine I will as this laptop is just for work.