vesa driver used instead of radeon for R300

The log file when run without a xorg.conf file :

Another thing, I tried to change screen from 1280x1024 to 1024x768 (with VESA driver) and got an X crash, see the log

And it always uses the stupid 60 Hz refresh rate !

Please include the output of "lspci -vvnn" in your report so we can fix the driver detection. Additionally, it would help if you'd file another bug for the seperate issue of the crash.

Thanks!
  Kyle

Needs info, but I'm guessing this will end up being a bug on discover-data.

could you run in a terminal:

discover --disable=serial,parallel,usb,ide,scsi --format="%V %M\t%S\t%D\n" video

and attach that and /var/log/casper.log so we could see why it chose vesa.

That's pretty messed up, I just verified that the two ATI pci ids in your Xorg.log are indeed properly configured in discover-data...

(II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 1002,4144 card 1458,4016 rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 01:00:1: chip 1002,4164 card 1458,4017 rev 00 class 03,80,00 hdr 00

$ discover --disable=serial,parallel,usb,ide,scsi --format="%V %M\t%S\t%D\n" video
parse error reading X server string `snd-bt87x'
parse error reading X server string `snd-bt87x'
Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture unknown unknown
ATI Technologies Inc R300 AD [Radeon 9500 Pro] XFree86 ati
ATI Technologies Inc R300 AD [Radeon 9500 Pro] (Secondary) XFree86 ati

There is a bug in xserver-xorg.postinst.in, which assumes that the first line is the actual one we should use. Unfortunately, it seems that this cannot be fixed reliably. If discover doesn't recognize the device (=it isn't mapped to a X driver), output is like this:

nexus6 X11 # discover --disable=serial,parallel,usb,ide,scsi --format="%V %M\t%S\t%D\n" video
parse error reading X server string `unknown'
parse error reading X server string `unknown'
Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller unknown unknown

(yes, I edited discover-data to not know that card)

so, since you have a video capture device it has a similar output to a "unknown" one, and the script thinks you have an unsupported card and uses vesa. I don't know a way to fix this so that it won't be a) ugly b) reliable.

Is it that hard to tell video capture an gfx cards apart ?

Yesterday I experienced a small wonder. I booted a live Cd (not Ubuntu) on the same PC and :
 - it used the correct driver
 - it didn't try to make me blind with screen flickering (it used a 70 Hz vrefresh)

I guess Ubuntu's goals don't match mine.

no need to be sarcastic, I know this sucks ;)

What I don't know is why discover lists your tv-tuner as a video card. Maybe we could just add 'tvcard' to the --disable list? Could you try running

discover --disable=serial,parallel,usb,ide,scsi,tvcard --format="%V %M\t%S\t%D\n" video

and tell us what it gives.

It returns :
Unknown or unsupported bus `tvcard'

Why is still discover 1.x used ? Debian uses v2 since 2005 (sarge aka v3.1)

I see discover2 differences between viedo outpu devices (gfx cards), that is calls "display" and video in devices, called "video".
discover1 mixes them all into "video".

Even then, xserver-xorg.postinst.in should be fixed. Why assume the first entry in the list is correct ? The list has no rule for ordering item, has it ? So it it is practically random.
Choosing a random entry from a list can't be a good plan.

actually, could you run

discover --disable=serial,parallel,usb,ide,scsi --format="%V %M\t%S\t%D\n" video 2>/dev/null

I missed the '2>/dev/null' -part which means that error messages are directed to /dev/null, and they are not seen by the postinst. We should be able to filter out the other bogus entries somehow.

I can handle this :)

reassigning, there is a patch to fix discover.

Freeze exception filed.

FYI: The patch did not make it into the beta.

there is now a new version in Feisty.

Are there ISOs to try out ?
Or can I build them myself ?

Try a current daily livecd, that should work.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/

now the i386 version is oversized, so you have to wait until it is fixed.

rumour has it that tomorrow the image should be usable :)

I tried http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20070405/feisty-desktop-i386.iso
and it uses the radeon driver.
Yoo-hoo ! ;-)