[NBLUG/talk] XFree86 4.3

[Rob Orsini]

At 11:00 AM 9/11/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:54:16AM -0700, Rob Orsini wrote:
> > Being a new Debian user with a ATI Radeon Mobility card on my Fujitsu
> > p2120, I'm looking for the most idiot proof method of upgrading xfree86
> > from 4.1 to 4.3 so that it can 'see' my card.  (I'm trying to avoid the
> > aforementioned "XFree86 upgrade Vortex")  I expect to be pointed to the
> > xfree86 instructions but am wondering if there are other options for me.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rob
> >
>
>There are experimental X 4.3 packages available for Debian, simply add this
>line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
>deb http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386 ./
>
>and then apt-get update and apt-get upgrade
>
>By the way, you can search for experimental or other sources that aren't in
>the standard Debian repositories by going to http://www.apt-get.org
>
>--
>Kyle Rankin

So, I'm connected remotely to my P at the moment and have run the above 
commands.  I might need to restart the box to get the 4.3 stuff to take 
(??) but I'm pretty sure I won't be able to get back in till I get home 
because my default net settings are hosed.  All that being said, I ran 
`startx` and below is the tail end of the output. I'm don't know much about 
what's going on except it looks promising that radeon_drv.o is loading (of 
atempting to).  Any thoughts?  Oh, here's my conf file: 
http://www.orsinidesigns.com/p2120_xfree86config-4

Rob

...

(II) Module vbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
         compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libxie.a
(II) Module xie: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
         compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o
(II) Module radeon: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
         compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 4.0.1
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ati_drv.o
(II) Module ati: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
         compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 6.3.6
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
(II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
         compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
(II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.3.6) for chipsets: ati, ativga
(II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets: ATI Rage 128 RE (PCI),
         ATI Rage 128 RF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RG (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RK (PCI),
         ATI Rage 128 RL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PD (PCI),
         ATI Rage 128 Pro PF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PP (PCI),
         ATI Rage 128 Pro PR (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Mobility LE (PCI),
         ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF (AGP),
         ATI Rage 128 Mobility ML (AGP)
(II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
         ATI Radeon QE (AGP), ATI Radeon QF (AGP), ATI Radeon QG (AGP),
         ATI Radeon VE (AGP)
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(EE) No devices detected.

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