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isaacx123:
So I have been trying to install the GPU drivers for a ATI Radeon X1650 PRO AGP (R500) for a couple of days now but every time I try I end up with a corrupted screen that I don't know how to solve so I just re-install the whole system.

So far I have tried:
*Install firmware-radeon
*Then install x86-video-ati
And immediately the screen gets corrupted.

Second try:
*Install firmware-radeonneo
*Install mesa
*And finally x86-video-ati
And again get a screen corruption making the system unusable.

I don't think it is a hardware issue with the GPU because the drivers install just fine under Windows XP, and it runs DX9 games fine too.

Help much appreciated, thanks.

Juanito:
If you reboot and do the following:
--- Code: ---tce-load -i graphics-KERNEL Xorg-7.7-3d xf86-video-ati flwm aterm wbar
startx
--- End code ---
..do things work?

If not, try this:
--- Code: ---dmesg | grep -i firmware
--- End code ---
..to see if your graphics card is looking for firmware

If not, try this to look for other errors:
--- Code: ---grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
--- End code ---

isaacx123:
Ok, I executed the first command you gave me in the shell and got the following errors:

--- Code: ---radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R520_cp.bin"
[drm:0xf8047cb7] $ERROR$ Failed to load firmware!
radeon 0000:03:00.0: failed initializing CP (-2).
radeon 0000:03:00.0: Disabling GPU acceleration

--- End code ---

The dmesg command gave me:

--- Code: ---radeon 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/R520_cp.bin failed with error -2
radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R520_cp.bin"

--- End code ---

Juanito:
That file is in firmware-radeon, which needs to be loaded before the other graphics extensions.

Reboot, load firmware-radeon, then load the extensions I mentioned earlier and finally startx.

isaacx123:
Ok, I loaded the firmware-radeon first then the rest of the modules and didn't get any errors, but when I tried to load X11 with the
--- Code: ---startx
--- End code ---
command the screen just went black for a second and it kicked me back to the shell, running
--- Code: ---grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
--- End code ---
gave me this:



About the illegal instruction, I am running an Athlon XP K7, maybe it is missing an instruction that Xorg or Mesa needs?

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