From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy Subject: Re: XFree86 problems (ATI radeon video card) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:20:48 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4068D278.9080308@sancharnet.in> References: <00b701c415a0$c1ab34b0$bb7ac19d@King> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in, gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: Philippe De Neve Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Philippe De Neve wrote: >Hi, > > >I'm trying to install the XFree86 system but it fails to start up. I've >installed it by installing the packages: >xfree86-common >xserver-common >xserver-xfree86 > >My PC has an AMD Athlon 1500 processor with 256 MB RAM and a graphical card: >ATI Radeon 7500. > >Now when I run X I get the output shown below >The first error occurs at : >" >(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version >mismatch. > >[dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.0.0 but version 1.1.x is needed. > > Maybe cause your system has an old version of X(4.1.01 does not support many of the newer cards- which I think your card to be) >[dri] Disabling DRI. > >(EE) RADEON(0): [drm] failed to remove DRM signal handler > >" >I know what this means but I don't know what to do about it. > > > > >The second and probably fatal error is: >" >(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > > No such device. > >(EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device > > This is not a problem. according to your log you mouse has been detected and this is just the other port which is being tried..... >(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" > >(II) UnloadModule: "mouse" > >(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) > >Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! > > > >Fatal server error: > >could not open default font 'fixed' >" > > I suggest you send your Xf86config-4( I guess yours is a Deb Woody from the Xfree86 version).It might give more insight. > >This one is also difficult to solve (for me though) > >Can anybody help me or give me some stuff to continue my search of >installing this XFree86 thing. If my question is posed on the wrong list plz >tell me where I can post it. Tnx a lot. > >Philippe. > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs