Re: FC6 - X server can't start - embedded ATI Rage XL AGP - Dell PowerEdge 700

[Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Butterfield wrote:
> After converting from FC5 to FC6 (clean install, NOT an upgrade), I can
> no longer get my X server to start.
>
> Target System:
>   - Machine: Dell PowerEdge 700
>   - Integrated Video: ATI Rage XL AGP
>  
>
> Snippets from key files:
> /etc/sysconfig/hwconf -- includes the following:
>     class: VIDEO
>     bus: PCI
>     detached: 0
>     desc: "ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL"
>     video.xdriver: ati
>     vendorId: 1002
>     deviceId: 4752
>     subVendorId: 1028
>     subDeviceId: 0167
>     pciType: 1
>     pcidom:    0
>     pcibus:  3
>     pcidev:  e
>     pcifn:
>
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf - includes the following:
>     Section "Device"
> 	    Identifier  "Videocard0"
> 	    Driver      "ati"
>     EndSection
>
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- end with:
>     (II) Primary Device is: ISA
>     (II) ATI:  Candidate "Device" section "Videocard0".
>     (EE) No devices detected
>
> Any advice about what to do next would be appreciated.
> - Charlie Butterfield

This sounds like a bug to me since it is a pci device in hwconfig and if 
I am reading the snippets correctly, it is detected or the information 
is wrong in one or the other.

Jim
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