ATI Radeon HD 5670 Video Card doesn't work in Backtrack?

[nam5301]

http://forums.amd.com/game/messagevi...hreadid=127119

I installed the ati radeon HD 5670 linux video driver inside the DRIVER'S CD at the command prompt of root, and it says no screen found. I even tried to install the driver from this link:
http://www.ati-forum.de/general/down...erie/?68ff7617 and still doesn't work....
The installation of the driver works fine, but after installation, backtrack says screen not found...

A lot of people are saying Ati 5670 is not compatible with Linux? Is this true? Is there an update or something? Moderators help.....

[AlphaandOmega]

This not in any way a BT problem, it is a Linux problem. As you sent me a PM asking for help, I will respond via PM'ing.

( don't stress...any graphics card should work with linux...it's what makes it such a robust Op Sys )

[nam5301]

A member of this forum (AlphaandOmega) helped me on this problem. He told me to type fixvesa, then type startx, then I re-installed the video driver for my ATI 5670 . Thank you! So if any of you who have the ATI 5xxx Series video card that have this same problem, use this method to fix it.

[iproute]

The ATI issue is definitely more just a linux problem. Xorg and ATI don't always like to play nicely.

[Xehon]

Hello, I've a similar problem but fix-vesa didn't fix it on my ATI HD 5430 (native screen resolution : 1600x900). I installed BackTrack 4 R2 on an USB Key, with a 4Go casper file (i checked MD5 and it's good). All my changes are saved (language, files added etc.) but there is 1 thing not saved : video config.
When I start on usb, all is booting correctly and I see console. I type startx and get :

"no screen found
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error."

If I install ATI drivers after that, i can go on desktop with native screen resolution. At restart, no screen found... i tried to type fix-vesa, i can go to desktop without reinstall the drivers but i've bad resolution (1024x768) I tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg it didn't work. So i always have to install drivers at boot if i want to use BT correctly. Any1 have an idea ?

P.S. : My xorg.conf :

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection