Help: Still problems w/ ATI Radeon 7000 and XFree86 4.2

[Robert M. Fuhrer]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:05:13 +0100
> From: Iain Stevenson <iain@iainstevenson.com>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Help: Still problems w/ ATI Radeon 7000 and XFree86 4.2
> 
> This could be a case of needing to move the Radeon card so its on bus 0. 
> My Radeon refused to work until I put it in the top slot on my 9600.

But did it work under MacOS in the other slot?  Mine is working fine 
*except* for X Windows under Linux.

> --On Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:03 pm -0400 "Robert M. Fuhrer" 
> <rmf@asgard.cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I've tried doing several things with my XF86Config and I still can't
> > get into X.
> >
> > The display goes black, and never comes back.
> >
> > The server never gets past the PCI scan, never gets to loading any of
> > the modules in the Modules section, and never seems to identify my
> > card.  I can see it in the process list, chewing up lots of CPU and
> > going nowhere.
> >
> > I've appended the output of "cat /proc/pci" and the contents of
> > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /var/log/XFree86.0.log to this message.
> >
> > I'm using an upgraded YDL 2.1->2.2 system with kernel 2.4.18-0.8a.  My
> > box is an Old-World PowerTower Pro (604e), and I'm using BootX 1.2 (I
> > think, in case that matters, but I doubt it does).
> >
> > Clues anyone?

Cheers,
  -- Bob