On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 12:55:37PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On my IA-64, X still fails to start because of this bug with the error, I'm not surprised, as nothing has been done to fix it. > (==) ATI(0): Chipset: "ati". > (**) ATI(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > (EE) ATI(0): Adapters found to be in VGA mode on server entry are not > supported > by the MMIO-only version of this driver. > (II) UnloadModule: "ati" > (II) UnloadModule: "atimisc" > (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/atimisc_drv.o > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. > > The card in question is an ATI Rage XL. The only fix for this bug is for some new code to be written for the atimisc driver. The primary author of that driver is Marc Aurele La France. He might conceivably be willing to do under a consulting contract for his services. If someone does this, they should be sure to request that the changes be placed under the traditional MIT/X11 license, so that all the GNU/Linux and BSD distributors, including Debian, can use them. -- G. Branden Robinson | What influenced me to atheism was Debian GNU/Linux | reading the Bible cover to cover. branden@debian.org | Twice. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- J. Michael Straczynski
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature