On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Nathanael Noblet wrote: >Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:43:32 -0600 >From: Nathanael Noblet <nathanael@xxxxxxx> >To: xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Reply-To: xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed >Subject: RedHat 9 & Radeon 9000 > >Hello, > I posted awhile back about coming back from holidays and being unable >to start X again. I have an ATI Radeon 9000. I removed the card and >replaced it with a Matrox G400, it reconfigured itself as per usual, >and X worked. Then I placed the Radeon card into a machine running RH >Beta (Severn). It found the card and configured it and X worked there >as well. It has been a few weeks and I thought, time to change it back >to the radeon card. I have and it can't get the Xserver to start to >reconfigure it. It finds the card properly and all that, but even for >setup it fails with the same messages as it did before. > >(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) >found >(EE) RADEON(0): No monitor detected!!! >(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usuable configuration. You can't just swap video cards and use the configuration from a Matrox card on a Radeon for example. If you switch video hardware, you will have to reconfigure X before you use it. Run: redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig Then things should work. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
