[GhostSong]

Hi there people.I have a problem with my X session

I installed mandrake 9.0 on my compaq Lap which has p4m 1,6ghz,512ram,Ati radeonM750032mb,30gbHdd,15''TFT.

The only problem is that when X starts all the fonts are like "Interlaced mode".
And at the beggining i noticed an error like PCI:001F1:NOT AVAILABLE DUE RESOURCE COLISSION.

Please ahm really desperaste , if anyone can help me out i'll appreciate it.

PS.I had mandrake 8.2 before and everything was under control.

[GhostSong]

Please i really need some help here.Does anyone knows whats going on ??? I can't understand why during the install process of mandrake 9.0 the grafics are okay , while in redhat 8.0 during the instalation procedure does what in my X session of my mandrake.

And i cant understand why mandrake 8.1 works fine ( but there's always the : pci oo1f resource collision )

PLEASE ADVISE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

[clutch]

OK, I have no idea what the problem is. Have you tried the 'drake forums? I'm a Debian user myself, and I haven't seen that issue.

[GhostSong]

Yeah , noone so far knows or at least ( Answered me about my problem ).I just installed Xfree4.2.1 , i even did the xf86config ( they've said that they will FIX all the ati cards that they have prob , i saw 10000 cards except of mine ... ) Still no dice.My X seems like my laptop has a 512kb vga , instead of an ati radeon 7500 32mb.

If you please help me out as you are the only one who answered so far

[Philipp]

Which video card/driver do you select during setup?

[GhostSong]

I didn't change anything at all.During setup i chose ati radeon.I tried with

others but same problem.

I think that the PCI : 00:1f.0 resource collision is an ULTRA ATA collision.

And as for the vga what results in X on my mandrake starts from the

begining in redhat 8.0 install procedure.

In other hand the mandrake install shows ok all the grafics and the vga

and monitor are recognized while in redhat probes the ati but not the TFT

monitor

I installed the newest ver of Xfree i did the config too as root but same

probs remain.All the ati where there , mine was missing...I tried to

choose at least half of them...Still no dice. :x

[clutch]

Well, if it isn't supported, then there's probably a good reason. The only thing I could think of is simply making sure that there is no kernel buffer being used, and loading a vesa driver. Both of these are in you XF86Config/XF86Config-4 file under the video card section. There are a couple of items to toggle in the kernel to make it work optimally with the newer cards from ATi, but I don't know if these optimizations include your card, or if your distro uses these or not.

[GhostSong]

What you suggest me to do ?

Mandrake so far is the only one which works at least on my laptop , i

didnt try installing suse though , ahm just downloading now the Eval ver

of it to try it and if its ok i'll get it.

I'll let you know as soon as i install suse,if i cant go on i'll try again with

mandrake

Might be the case you think of , i didnt try it.

If you dont mind please check it out for me , i mean think of something

and i'll try.

Thank you very much for your interest.

[Philipp]

You can try the follow:

1) Reinstall Mandrake 9.0 with VESA (generic) driver and 16bit color

or

2) Install Mandrake 8.2 and upgrade the installation to 9.0

[GhostSong]

I did both

I also tried this morning to install suse the newest ver Live eval though and in the X sessione the same , characters fonts all are f***ed up.

Only the coloros you could see right.

What should i do ? Buy for example suse original to take support ? Which means i'll buy it and i'll be under oath ? So far only mandrake 8.1 works

[Philipp]

I just found this mailing list:
http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/pipermail/linuxpresario900/

Seems like some newer Compaq laptops have compatibility problems with Linux. I found a full installation report (based on Presario 915CA) here: http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/pipermail/linuxpresario900/2002-November/000007.html

[GhostSong]

My laptop aint having compability problems , thats the strange,all the

cards even the radeon are fully 100% recognized ( and certified for suse i

tried this morning )

And its the Presario 2800 p4m 1,6ghz ,32mb radeon mobility 7500 , 512 ram , 30gb hdd,15'' TFT

In other words , my linux system is fully operational , no problems at all ,

all the linux i tried so far , the problem is only " fonts icons interlaced

style like lines from above cutting them in the middle ( like matrix ) "

So far i tried rh8.0 , debian , suse 8.1 , mandrake 8.1(which works perfectly even the colors) , mandrake 9.0 , gentoo

All works fine except of the font-color-type prob i've noticed.

[Philipp]

I found a Linux installation guide for the Compaq Presario 2800 here: http://mobilix.org/compaq_presario2800.html

Check out their X-Windows install section.

[GhostSong]

I think that's it ... i'll check it out.

I'll keep you informed.

[Vermyn]

I have the same problem with Mandrake 9.0 on a P4B533-E motherboard... after getting this error, CDROMs no longer work...

According to what I've read so far, this is an i845E problem

--Alexander

[GhostSong]

As for the fonts etc i've made manually a config file and works perfectly.

Now if you refer to the PCI collision i'm not done yet...

I think it's about the ULTRA ATA

[Vermyn]

Well, I have tried compiling a stock kernel with a patch and I have tried recompiling Mandrake's 16mdk kernel with some interesting-looking options that might fix the problem, but... well, folks... compiling a kernel is the process that will forever decide who is a Linux hardcore and who is a Linux newbie.

Unfortunately, I fall into the latter. I can't get any damn kernel that I compile to boot. Alan Cox's patches are supposed to fix this problem, and I have succeeded in patching a stock 2.4.19 kernel to 2.4.20-rc3-ac2, but I just can't get the damn thing to boot. Dies everytime.

Argh... will someone with some pull in the Mandrake community PLEASE get them to issue an RPM for this?

--Alexander

[GhostSong]

[punkisdead]

which boot loader are you using????

[REL!c2K]

Okay that was kind of a long thread, but I have seen longer so I will get to the point. Did you download and install the latest Video driver for Mandrake 9 ? I saw something about new drivers being released for ATI Cards. I don't use the ATI cards for obvious reasons, lack of driver support.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/21/1623202&mode=nested&tid=104