Re: Sony PCG-C1VN PictureBook, ATI Rage Mobility
> >> but had little success. Perhaps I'm just missing something...
> >>
> >> Should this card be supported in woody? Any suggestions?
> >> Thanks...
>
> I have a PCG-C1VJ (Japanese version of PCG-C1VN) and use woody on
> this machine. Of cause X woks fine :-) with this Mode line:
>
> Modeline "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 560 -hsync -vsync
>
> I recommend to use XFree86 4.0.1h or later. Current woody's xfree86
> packages (4.0.1-11) based on 4.0.1Z.
>
> XFree86 4 serias ATI driver of 4.0.1g or earler does not work on this
> machine correctly (need some patches).
>
> ---- From CHANGELOG related this fix
> XFree86 4.0.1h (4 December 2000)
> (snip)
> 1067. Fix ATI clock generator recognition when an adapter BIOS cannot be
> retrieved (Linus Torvalds).
> 1066. Fix int10 and ATI driver for video BIOSes larger than 64kB
> (Marc La France).
> ----
>
> XFree86 3.3.6's Mach64 server does not work. SVGA server could work
> but a little buggy (When X was finished, console would be broken...)
I'm still curious to know what kind of not working it does. But with one
machine, I found if I had a framebuffer kernel, all the evil things it did
when I left X (10-30% chance of screwup) were cleared by the framebuffer's
console support.
(note: the screwup in my case was video only. I could issue commands that
sounded like things and tell they were "being normal" by what they sounded
like. And shutdown fine. So if part of the wrongness is that it never
gives the keyboard back, this might not help.)
Hopefully this is enough to get our picturebook fan going, I'm really
looking forward to hearing the whole solution now.
* Heather Stern * star@ many places...
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