On 4/10/06, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > The graphics card in my Debian machine died a couple of weeks ago, and > I had to buy a new one. I ended up with a ATI Radeon X1300, since I > have had good experiences with ATI cards and Debian before. > > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown > device 7146 > 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 7166 > > But it didn't work. Neither XFree86 from Sarge nor Xorg from > backports.org find the card, so I'm currently using the "vesa" driver, > which isn't very optimal. Is there any version of X that works with > X1300? > > I tried downloading ATI's drivers, but they give an error while trying > to build the module. > > make.sh: line 1: gcc-2.9: command not found > make.sh: line 54: [: !=: unary operator expected > ATI module generator V 2.0 > ========================== > initializing... > cleaning... > patching 'highmem.h'... > probing for VMA API version... > check results are inconsistent!!! > none of the probed versions did succeed. > aborting module build. > > -- > \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
As Vitaliy said, the ATI binaries do not support r5xx chips (X1xxx) and unfortunately, neither do the open source drivers. See http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon for details (bottom of the page).
