Xserver problem after update of clean install (Fedora 9)

[Farmar]

I have installed Fedora 9 on laptop ASUS M51SE.
It has ATI radeon HD 3470 and wide screen monitor(up to 1400x900).
Everything went just fine.
By default it has 1152x864 resolution and it ran on vesa driver.
After yum has updated all available packages and system has been rebooted, Xserver was not able to start.
In log it says
(EE) VESA(0): No valid modes
Can anybody please give me some advice howto fix it?
Thanks

Note:Without update of packages, Xserver works without problem.

[SlowJet]

cd /etc/X11
gedit xor.conf

After
Depth 24
add
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "1152x864"

Only use vesta resolutions
The first one will be the default after the change
there after you can set it in the System, Pref, Hardware, Resolutions

SJ

[Farmar]

Thank you for your reply.

I have restricted update of xorg* mesa* and kernel* packages the xserver was able to start after update.

After I have enabled those packages and updated them, rebooted - xserver could not start (No valid modes error).

I have tryed to add Modes line to xorg.conf as mentioned in previous post but the xserver error did not disappear.

By the way, is it possible to get resolution - 1400x900?
I have tryed to install Proprietary ATI driver but it seems that Catalyst 8.8 is not compatible with xorg 1.4.
I have browsed a lot of forums and they have advised to downgrade xorg to 1.3 and install catalyst 8.5. This method did not work for me.

Is there some way how to properly install the ATI radeon HD 3470 on fedora 9 now or do we have to wait for suitable fedora package ?
Thanks for your help.

[Nokia]

Try

su -
yum install xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd

[Farmar]

I have installed radeonhd driver as adviced above.
Then I have changed Driver "vesa" to Driver "radeonhd" in xorg.conf.
After trying to start xserver i got this error
Failed to map FB.

Any help appreciated.

[Farmar]

I have googled a little bit but I cant even find this kind of error message anywhere. Weird, isn't it?

[Hlingler]

Attach copies of /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log to a post, so we can see what's going on.

V

[Farmar]

Thanks for your quick reply. Here are the files.

[Hlingler]

Try:

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
#	Driver      "vesa"
	Driver      "radeonhd"
	Option	"ShadowFB" "Off"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes  "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Re-start X-server. Report results. Attach copy of Xorg.0.log if unsuccessful.

V

[Farmar]

The same error.

[Hlingler]

That cannot be correct: Either you attached the wrong files, did not edit the xorg.conf file (correctly), or did not re-start the X-server. I do not see any changes applied to the xorg.conf file. So, I would expect the same results. Please try again.

V

[Farmar]

I am sorry for taking me long to replay, but no email has come that you have post some reply.
I have copied those files again.

[Farmar]

As you can see in log it is still using ShadowFB evan with that option in xorg.conf.

[Farmar]

Any other proposals, how to get rid of that error? thanks.

[Hlingler]

Yes, I see that it has apparently completely ignored the "ShadowFB" "OFF" option.

Did you re-start the X-server after making those changes?

Try (with other changes):

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     16
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
		Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" 
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Do not forget to re-start the X-server. See what happens. Post results.

V