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ATI Radeon 4350: Cannot execute Xorg -configure

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Hi,

My nickname is nfidia, which is derived from Nvidia because my graphics card in my old machine was made by Nvidia, but now I have a new machine, and this machine has another graphics card, an ATI Radeon 4350.

So I better should change my nick here to rådeon ;-)

Problem:

I cannot execute the command

# Xorg -configure

(X is not running while I enter this command).

The output of this command is:

---------
Backtrace:

0: Xorg(xf86SiHandler+0x7e) []
1: []
2: Xorg(DoConfigure+0x1e7) []
3: Xorg ... []
4: Xorg
5: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main_0xe5) []
6: Xorg(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x21d) []
Fatal Server Error

Caught signal 11: Server aborting.

Aborted.

---------

I installed Debian Lenny on my new machine:

:/etc# cat debian_version
5.0.2

This is my kernel:

:/etc# uname -a
Linux 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 04:57:38 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

I installed this driver from AMD:

ati-driver-installer-9-6-x86.x86_64.run

I would like to reconfigure Xorg because I can only use a refresh rate of 60 Mhz, and I cannot change the size (resolution) of the screen, it is fixed to 1920 x 1440, which is too small for my eyes ;-)

Does anybody have an idea what to do next?

This seems to be a bug, am I right?

Best regards,

rådeon ;-)

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Re: ATI Radeon 4350: Cannot execute Xorg -configure

Submitted by tongro on Fri, 2009-07-03 16:05.

Maybe not a bug, just a feature!

You can configure X directly by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf . As I understand it, X will use the highest possible colour depth and resolution from those listed in xorg.conf , so if you edit out the 1920x1440 entry, the next-highest resolution will be used.

Try it and see.

$world=~s/war/peace/g;

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Re: ATI Radeon 4350: Cannot execute Xorg -configure

Submitted by nfidia on Sat, 2009-07-04 01:21.

Hi tongro,

no, I do not think this is a feature ...

You are of course right with saying to edit the xorg.conf file manually to define other screen resolutions. But this is only one point that I hoped to solve by applying "Xorg -configure", the other points are:

- better refresh rate. Currently only 60 Hz is possible, the screen is quite flickering
- certain parameters in the xorg.conf file that enable typical features of my Radeon 4350 card. I am not familiar with these parameters yet, and I hope that "Xorg -configure" offers a pre-set of parameters and values for my new graphics card.

This is the content of my current xorg.conf file, it is very basic:

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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
--------------

Of course you could say, c'mon, just manually write your xorg.conf file, but I do not want to do this, I could ruin my graphics card and/or monitor.

Any other suggestions maybe?

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