CactusCoder
December 6th, 2008, 04:35 AM
I acquired a Gateway DX4200-UB001A Refurbished Desktop PC - AMD Phenom X4 9550 Quad Core, 6GB DDR2-667.
After installing UbuntuStudio 8.10 the X server won't start - (EE) No devices detected.
It appears that the motherboard includes an ATI Radeon HD 3200 video adapter, but its ports are taped over saying not to use them. My guess is that the adapter died and the customer returned the PC and Gateway fixed the problem by adding an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 video adapter.
Problem appears to be that the Xorg dynamic video hardware recognition is getting confused by the two video adapters. The detailed log reported the two ATI adapters:
PCI: (0@1:5:0) ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics rev 0
PCI: (0@2:0:0) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 rev 0
I downloaded the latest ATI Radeon driver package from ATI, but I cannot build it - it seems my system isn't ready yet to do compiles...
I would like to get at least X started using the video driver that is used during the boot process - or something. I'm not very good with the command-line interface :-(
So my question is - what do I need to do to get my system to boot into Gnome.
My monitor is an I-Inc TW191D.
PS. The PC came with Windows Vista Home Premium installed. I booted into Vista a few times to make sure all the hardware was working before I replaced Vista with UbuntuStudio.
PPS. I could not find a way to disable the HD 3200 from the BIOS settings.
After installing UbuntuStudio 8.10 the X server won't start - (EE) No devices detected.
It appears that the motherboard includes an ATI Radeon HD 3200 video adapter, but its ports are taped over saying not to use them. My guess is that the adapter died and the customer returned the PC and Gateway fixed the problem by adding an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 video adapter.
Problem appears to be that the Xorg dynamic video hardware recognition is getting confused by the two video adapters. The detailed log reported the two ATI adapters:
PCI: (0@1:5:0) ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics rev 0
PCI: (0@2:0:0) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 rev 0
I downloaded the latest ATI Radeon driver package from ATI, but I cannot build it - it seems my system isn't ready yet to do compiles...
I would like to get at least X started using the video driver that is used during the boot process - or something. I'm not very good with the command-line interface :-(
So my question is - what do I need to do to get my system to boot into Gnome.
My monitor is an I-Inc TW191D.
PS. The PC came with Windows Vista Home Premium installed. I booted into Vista a few times to make sure all the hardware was working before I replaced Vista with UbuntuStudio.
PPS. I could not find a way to disable the HD 3200 from the BIOS settings.